Mystery in Children's Literature

TROY BOONE Assistant Professor of English, University of PittsburghCLARE BRADFORD Associate Professor, School of Literary and Communication Studies, Deaking University, MelbourneKAREN COATS Assistant Professor of English, Illinois State UniversityVALERIE KRIPS Lecturer in English, University of PittsburghROBYN MCCALLUM Lecturer in English, Macquarie University, SydneyMARY JEANETTE MORAN Doctoral Studies, University of Iowa, USAROBIN AMELIA MORRIS Poet and ScholarPAT PINSENT Senior Research Fellow, English Department, Roehampton Institute, LondonDAVID RUDD Senior Lecturer, Bolton Institute, UKJOHN STEPHENS Associate Professor of English, Macquarie University, Sydney

• Notes on the Contributors Mystery in Children's Literature from the Rational to the Supernatural: An Introduction; A.E.Gavin & C.Routledge 'so great and beautiful that I cannot write them': Religious Mystery and Children's Literature; P.Pinsent Nancy's Ancestors: The Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess; M.J.Moran The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls , and the Nancy Drew Mysteries; T.Boone Children's Detective Fiction and the 'Perfect Crime' of Adulthood; C.Routledge Digging up the Family Plot: Secrets, Mystery, and the Blytonesque; D.Rudd Plotting the Past: The Detective as Historian in the Novels of Philippa Pearce; V.Krips The Secret Development of a Girl Writer: Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy; R.A.Morris Apparition and Apprehension: Emergent Womanhood and Supernatural Mystery in Novels for Children by Women Writers; A.E.Gavin Possessed by the Beast: Subjectivity and Agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell; C.Bradford 'There are Worse Things than Ghosts': Reworking Horror Chronotopes in Australian Children's Fiction; J.Stephens & R.McCallum The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children; K.Coats Harry Potter and the Mystery of Ordinary Life; C.Routledge Enigma's Variation: The Puzzling Mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin, Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg; A.E.Gavin Index

'I enjoyed reading these essays...a worthwhile book to add to any well-rounded university library...' - Jill P. May, Children's Literature Association Quarterly