"This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish childrens literature throughout the long nineteenth century. From periodicals to poetry, chapbooks to fairy tales, short stories to plays, it reveals the richness and diversity of writing for children in this period. 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 childrens literature, as well as the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition. Essays also examine the significance of children as literary protagonists, and as readers themselves. In recovering these marginal voices and texts, and in showing how well-known stories explore questions of culture, identity, and language, The Land of Story-Books seeks to restore the traditions of childrens writing to the heart of Scottish literary history."
(The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, (https://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/Land_of_Story_Books.html) https://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/Land_of_S... )

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edited by Sarah Dunnigan and Shu-Fang Lai

Dunnigan, Sarah;Lai, Shu-Fang

Shu-Fang Lai; Sarah Dunnigan

Project Muse

Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies), Baltimore, Maryland, 2019

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece
Introduction
Educating the Female Child: Debates from the Scottish Periodical Press in Enlightenment Scotland, 1750¬タモ1800
The Young Person¬タルs Sir Walter: Scott and the Nineteenth-Century Child Reader
¬タリEntertaining and Instructing Histories¬タル: Children¬タルs Chapbook Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Nature versus Nurture: Robert Chambers as a Writer for Children
The Scottish Nursery Muse: Scottish Poetry and the Children¬タルs Verse Tradition in the Victorian Period
Gaelic Tradition and the Celtic Revival in Children¬タルs Literature in Scottish Gaelic and English
Historical Facts and ¬タリRomantic Daring¬タル: Thomas Nelson & Sons, the Adventure Tale, and the Late-Victorian Education Market
Symbolism and Empire: Stevenson, Scott, and Toy Soldiers
The Darkening Island: Stevenson, Barrie, and the Perils of Childhood
Colonising Neverland: British Motherhood as Imaginative Play in J. M. Barrie¬タルs Peter and Wendy
¬タリStaunch little democrat that he was¬タル: Humanitarian Sentiment, Social Reform, and Political Idealism in Eleanor Atkinson¬タルs Greyfriars Bobby
Youthful Visionaries in Margaret Oliphant¬タルs Fin-de-Siᅢᄄcle Fiction
A Scottish Child¬タルs Memento Mori: Language, Folklore, and Landscape in George MacDonald¬タルs Ranald Bannerman¬タルs Boyhood
Betwixt-and-Between: Barrie, Shakespeare, and Playing at Childhood
Two Telling Tales: Didacticism as a Means of Feminine Empowerment in Catherine Sinclair¬タルs Holiday House and Dinah Mulock Craik¬タルs Alice Learmont
Romance, Death and other Predicaments: Guidance for the Young in the Fiction of Mary Gordon (Mrs Disney Leith)
Unlocking Scottish Balladry and Folklore in George MacDonald¬タルs ¬タリThe Golden Key¬タル
¬タリA great, unlimited world¬タル? Imaginative Locations in the Fairy Tales of Jessie Saxby and Violet Jacob
¬タリTo Children and Others¬タル: Audience, Advertising, and the Reception of Andrew Lang¬タルs Fairy Books (1889¬タモ1910)
¬タリIt is lovely to be five¬タル
Notes on Contributors
Index
Back Cover

As well as examining much-loved authors of the long nineteenth century such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, these twenty essays explore the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inheritance of Scottish children's literature, the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the influence of folklore and tradition.

2022-03-08