Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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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
Attention for Chapter 4:
The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls , and the Nancy Drew Mysteries
