Politics and ideology in children's literature

Introduction: politics and ideology in children’s literature
Marian Thérèse Keyes & Áine McGillicuddy

Part One: Ideology and Subversion

Little tweaks and fundamental changes: two aspects of socio-political transformation in children’s literature
Clémentine Beauvais

Ecocriticism, ecopedagogy and the life and works of Beatrix Potter
Eithne O’Connell

‘Creaturely life’: biopolitical intensity in selected children’s fables
Victoria de Rijke

‘That imprudent Old Person of Chili’: individual and They in Edward Lear’s limericks
Olga Springer

Part Two: Utopias and Dystopias

‘Don’t let the fire go out’: echoes of the past, aspirations for the future in the teenage novels of Eilís Dillon
Anne Marie Herron

Recovery of origins: identity and ideology in the work of O.R. Melling
Ciara Ní Bhroin

Distant districts and dark days: national identity in The hunger games
Susan Shau Ming Tan

Part Three: Experiences of War and Exile

‘You are the hope of the world!’: the figure of the child in First World War children’s literature
Elizabeth A. Galway

‘A noi!: the emergence of the gallant Fascist in Italian children’s literature of the inter-war period
Jessica D’Eath

Out of the Hitler time: growing up in exile
Áine McGillicuddy

Part Four: Gender Politics

Paratexts and gender politics: a study of selected works by Anna Maria Fielding Hall
Marian Thérèse Keyes

Young women dealing with abuse: Catherine Breillat’s cinematic perspective on Bluebeard
Brigitte Le Juez

Sexual violence and rape myths in contemporary young adult fiction
Marion Rana