{"product_id":"j-m-barries-peter-pan-in-and-out-of-time-a-childrens-classic-at-100-childrens-literature-association-centennial-studies-4-9780810854284","title":"J M Barries Peter Pan in and Out of Time A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on children's literature and popular culture today, especially focusing on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcademic libraries that support the scholarly study of children's and Edwardian literature will want this multifaceted study... * School Library Journal, January 2007 *\u003cbr\u003eThe combined work of the book's eighteen contributors...exemplifies not only how this children's classic continues to fascinate young readers, but why Peter Pan is also a surprisingly—often shockingly—adult story. * English Literature In Transition, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2007) *\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays featuring contributions by young, mostly American scholars marks the centenary of the first publication of the play Peter Pan (1904). * Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2007 *\u003cbr\u003eThis new centenary collection provides appropriately rich and protean responses to its subject, the most fruitful of them investigating the textual, narrative, and linguistic challenges presented by the many-faceted and multiple versions of Peter Pan. Donna White and Anita Tarr deserve our thanks for compiling an exemplary collection of essays....Peter Pan in and out of Time exhibits the richness and variety that can come with maturity, in this case, critical maturity. At the same time that this essay collection provides a fitting tribute to the durability of the Peter Pan mythos and the complex of desires and fears it encodes, it also provides entertaining, incisive, and useful ways of understanding this complex of texts. * Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring 2007) *\u003cbr\u003e...a seminal collection that adds to the growing scholarship on children's literature and attests to the popularity of and growing interest in literature for children. It is a work that is informed by scholarship and research of which only experts are capable; but is addressed to all...the book is a great accomplishment and deserves praise. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *\u003cbr\u003e...academic readers will find this book useful. * Literary Criticism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: In His Own Time Chapter 3 1. Child-Hating: Peter Pan in the Context of Victorian Hatred Chapter 4 2. The Time of His Life: Peter Pan and the Decadent Nineties Chapter 5 3. Babes in Boy-Land: J.M. Barrie and the Edwardian Girl Chapter 6 4. James Barrie's Pirates: Peter Pan's Place in Pirate History and Lore Chapter 7 5. More Darkly down the Left Arm: The Duplicity of Fairyland in the Plays of J.M. Barrie Part 8 Part II: In and Out of Time—Peter Pan in America Chapter 9 6. Problematizing Piccaninnies, or How J.M. Barrie Uses Graphemes to Counter Racism in Peter Pan Chapter 10 7. The Birth of a Lost Boy: Traces of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Willa Cather's The Professor's House Part 11 Part III: Timelessness and Timeliness of Peter Pan Chapter 12 8. The Pang of Stone Words Chapter 13 9. Playing in Neverland: Peter Pan Video Game Revisions Chapter 14 10. The Riddle of His Being: An Exploration of Pter Pan's Perpetually Altering State Chapter 15 11. Getting Peter's Goat: Hybridity, Androgyny, and Terror in Peter Pan Chapter 16 12. Peter Pan, Pullman, and Potter: Anxieties of Growing Up Chapter 17 13. The Blot of Peter Pan Part 18 Part IV: Women's Time Chapter 19 14. The Kiss: Female Sexuality and Power in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan Chapter 20 15. The Female Figure in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: The Small and the Mighty Part 21 Index Part 22 About the Contributors","brand":"Scarecrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038323179863,"sku":"9780810854284","price":67.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810854284.jpg?v=1750939927","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/j-m-barries-peter-pan-in-and-out-of-time-a-childrens-classic-at-100-childrens-literature-association-centennial-studies-4-9780810854284","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}