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Shows how the acceptance of psychoanalysis owes a notable debt to the rise of “kid lit”



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"This canny and original study is far more searching, wide-ranging, and fun than its modest title suggests. Kenneth B. Kidd not only analyzes but somehow evokes for us the way the child and stories told about her drift through our dreams, literature, and culture, giving form to our finest aspirations and darkest nightmares. An essential, generous, deeply-informed book." —James Kincaid, University of Southern California



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Contents

Introduction: Reopening the Case of Peter Pan

1. Kids, Fairy Tales, and the Uses of Enchantment
2. Child Analysis, Play, and the Golden Age of Pooh
3. Three Case Histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and Oz
4. Maurice Sendak and Picturebook Psychology
5. “A Case History of Us All”: The Adolescent Novel before and after Salinger
6. T Is for Trauma: The Children’s Literature of Atrocity


Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/11/2011
      ISBN13: 9780816675838, 978-0816675838
      ISBN10: 081667583X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shows how the acceptance of psychoanalysis owes a notable debt to the rise of “kid lit”



      Trade Review

      "This canny and original study is far more searching, wide-ranging, and fun than its modest title suggests. Kenneth B. Kidd not only analyzes but somehow evokes for us the way the child and stories told about her drift through our dreams, literature, and culture, giving form to our finest aspirations and darkest nightmares. An essential, generous, deeply-informed book." —James Kincaid, University of Southern California



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Introduction: Reopening the Case of Peter Pan

      1. Kids, Fairy Tales, and the Uses of Enchantment
      2. Child Analysis, Play, and the Golden Age of Pooh
      3. Three Case Histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and Oz
      4. Maurice Sendak and Picturebook Psychology
      5. “A Case History of Us All”: The Adolescent Novel before and after Salinger
      6. T Is for Trauma: The Children’s Literature of Atrocity


      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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