The Land of Story-Books : Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Frontispiece -- Body -- Introduction -- Part I: Constructions of Childhood -- 1. Educating the Female Child: Debates from the Scottish Periodical Press in Enlightenment Scotland, 1750-1800 -- 2. The Young Person's Sir Walter: Scott and the Nineteenth-Century Child Reader -- 3. 'Entertaining and Instructing Histories': Children's Chapbook Literature in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Nature versus Nurture: Robert Chambers as a Writer for Children -- 5. The Scottish Nursery Muse: Scottish Poetry and the Children's Verse Tradition in the Victorian Period -- 6. Gaelic Tradition and the Celtic Revival in Children's Literature in Scottish Gaelic and English -- Part II: Romance, Adventure, and Imperialsim -- 7. Historical Facts and 'Romantic Daring': Thomas Nelson &amp -- Sons, the Adventure Tale, and the Late-Victorian Education Market -- 8. Symbolism and Empire: Stevenson, Scott, and Toy Soldiers -- 9. The Darkening Island: Stevenson, Barrie, and the Perils of Childhood -- 10. Colonising Neverland: British Motherhood as Imaginative Play in J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy -- 11. 'Staunch little democrat that he was': Humanitarian Sentiment, Social Reform, and Political Idealism in Eleanor Atkinson's Greyfriars Bobby -- Part III: Child's Play -- 12. Youthful Visionaries in Margaret Oliphant's Fin-de-Siècle Fiction -- 13. A Scottish Child's Memento Mori: Language, Folklore, and Landscape in George MacDonald's Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood -- 14. Betwixt-and-Between: Barrie, Shakespeare, and Playing at Childhood -- Part IV: Moral and Spiritual Fictions -- 15. Two Telling Tales: Didacticism as a Means of Feminine Empowerment in Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House and Dinah Mulock Craik's Alice Learmont.

16. Romance, Death and other Predicaments: Guidance for the Young in the Fiction of Mary Gordon (Mrs Disney Leith) -- Part V: Fairytale and Fantasy -- 17. Unlocking Scottish Balladry and Folklore in George MacDonald's 'The Golden Key' -- 18. 'A great, unlimited world'? Imaginative Locations in the Fairy Tales of Jessie Saxby and Violet Jacob -- 19. 'To Children and Others': Audience, Advertising, and the Reception of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (1889-1910) -- Part VI: Children's Books in the Archive -- 20. 'It is lovely to be five' -- Back matter -- Notes on contributors -- Index -- Back cover.

This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As well as revisiting much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inheritance of Scottish children's literature, the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition.

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