Studies in children's literature, 1500–2000

Introduction
Mary Shine Thompson

Reading English renaissance children and the early modern stage
A.J. Piesse

Rebuilding Castle Blair: a reading of Flora Shaw's 1878 children's novel
Robert Dunbar

The wild Irish girls of L.T. Meade and Mrs George De Horne Vaizey
Carole Dunbar

The voyeur
Áine Nic Gabhann

School stories
Declan Kiberd

Golliwog: genealogy of a non-PC icon
David Rudd

Colonialization of food in children's literature: apple pie or Turkish delight?
Ann Alston

Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: poets' stories
Deborah Thacker

The development of Patricia Lynch's writing in the light of an exploration of new
archival material
Margaret Burke

The Talbot Press and its religious publications for children
Mary Flynn

Forging national identity: the adventure stories of Eilís Dillon
Ciara Ní Bhroin

Wars of independence: the construction of Irish histories in the work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhán Parkinson
Pádraic Whyte

A theory without a centre: developing childist criticism
Sebastien Chapleau

Alchemy and alco pops: breaking the ideology trap
Kimberley Reynolds

The hero in the twenty-first century: transgressing the heroic gender construct
Jane O'Hanlon

Crocodiles and naked pigs: motifs and motives in Max Velthuijs's picturebooks
Howard Hollands and Victoria de Rijke

Artists' books for a cross-audience
Sandra L. Beckett