Nursery realms : children in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, and horror / edited by Gary Westfahl and George Slusser.

Other author Westfahl, Gary.
Other author Slusser, George Edgar.
Other author Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 1993 : Riverside, Calif.)
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1999.
Descriptionxiii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Children in literature--Congresses.
Fantasy literature--History and criticism. --Congresses.
Science fiction--History and criticism. --Congresses.
Horror tales--History and criticism. --Congresses.

Partial contents Infant joys : the pleasures of disempowerment in fantasy and science fiction / Eric S. Rabkin -- Humpty Dumpty effect, or was the old egg really all it was cracked up to be : context and coming of age in science fiction and fantasy / Frances Deutsch Louis -- Narrative uses of little Jewish girls in science fiction and fantasy stories : mediating between civilization and its own savagery / Susan Kray -- Triumph of teen-prop : Terminator II and the end of history / Gary Kern -- Forever child : Ender's game and the mythic universe of science fiction / George Slusser -- Child as alien / Joseph D. Miller -- Baby's next step : Ub̈erkinder and the burden of the future / Howard V. Hendrix -- E.T. as fairy tale / Andrew Gordon -- Child vision in the fantasy of George MacDonald / Gay Barton -- If not today, then tomorrow : fact, faith, and fantasy in Isaac Bashevis Singer's autobiographical writings / Alida Allison -- Real-world source for the "little people" : a comparison of fairies to individuals with Williams Syndrome / Howard M. Lenhoff -- Coming of age in fantasyland : the self-parenting child in Walt Disney animated films / Lynne Lundquist and Gary Westfahl -- Nasty boys, feminine longing, and mourning the mother in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Anne Rice's The witching hour / Stephanie Barbé Hammer -- Unsealing sense in The turn of the screw / Susan J. Navarette -- Getting things in the right order : Stephen King's The shining, The stand, and It / Bud Foote.
Local noteJoyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General noteEssays from the proceedings of the 15th Annual Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held Apr. 1993 in Riverside, Calif.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005
LCCN 98047940
ISBN0820320951 (alk. paper)
ISBN0820321443 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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