Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Bringing Back Theory

Kerry Mallan and Clare Bradford

1Schemas and Scripts: Cognitive Instruments and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Children’s Literature

John Stephens

2Journeying Subjects: Spatiality and Identity in Children’s Texts

Clare Bradford and Raffaella Baccolini

3Local and Global: Cultural Globalization, Consumerism, and Children’s Fiction

Elizabeth Bullen and Kerry Mallan

4Monstrous Women: Gothic Misogyny in

Monster House

Maria Takolander

5Splitting the Difference: Pleasure, Desire, and Intersubjectivity in Children’s Literature and Film

Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

6Children As Ecocitizens: Ecocriticism and Environmental Texts

Geraldine Massey and Clare Bradford

7From ‘Wizard’ to ‘Wicked’: Adaptation Theory and Young Adult Fiction

David Buchbinder

8All That Matters: Technoscience, Critical Theory, and Children’s Fiction

Kerry Mallan

Bibliography

Index