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Mystery in Children's Literature

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    Chapter 1 Mystery in Children’s Literature from the Rational to the Supernatural: an Introduction
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    Chapter 2 ‘so great and beautiful that I cannot write them’: Religious Mystery and Children’s Literature
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    Chapter 3 Nancy’s Ancestors: the Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess
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    Chapter 4 The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls , and the Nancy Drew Mysteries
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    Chapter 5 Children’s Detective Fiction and the ‘Perfect Crime’ of Adulthood
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    Chapter 6 Digging up the Family Plot: Secrets, Mystery, and the Blytonesque
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    Chapter 7 Plotting the Past: the Detective as Historian in the Novels of Philippa Pearce
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    Chapter 8 The Secret Development of a Girl Writer: Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy
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    Chapter 9 Apparition and Apprehension: Supernatural Mystery and Emergent Womanhood in Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights , and Novels by Margaret Mahy
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    Chapter 10 Possessed by the Beast: Subjectivity and Agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell
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    Chapter 11 ‘There Are Worse Things Than Ghosts’: Reworking Horror Chronotopes in Australian Children’s Fiction
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    Chapter 12 The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children
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    Chapter 13 Harry Potter and the Mystery of Ordinary Life
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    Chapter 14 Enigma’s Variation: the Puzzling Mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin, Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg
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Title
Mystery in Children's Literature
Published by
Springer, February 2001
DOI 10.1057/9780333985137
ISBNs
978-0-333-98513-7, 978-1-349-42374-3
Editors

Gavin, Adrienne E., Routledge, Christopher

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Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 40%
Librarian 1 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 10%
Lecturer 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 2 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 20%
Social Sciences 2 20%
Psychology 1 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 20%