Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173) and index.
Table of Contents
ch. 1.Regression and the fragmentation of the self in James and the giant peach /Mark I. West --ch. 2.Mysterious and the uncanny in Nancy Drew and Harriet the spy /Lucy Rollin --ch. 3.Uncanny Mickey Mouse and his domestication /Lucy Rollin --ch. 4.Narcissism in The wind in the willows /Mark I. West --ch. 5.Reproduction of mothering in Charlotte's web /Lucy Rollin --ch. 6.Pinocchio's journey from the pleasure principle to the reality principle /Mark I. West --ch. 7.Gazing and mirroring in The prince and the pauper /Lucy Rollin --ch. 8.Childhood fantasies and frustrations in Maurice Sendak's picture books /Lucy Rollin --ch. 9.Grotesque and the taboo in Roald Dahl's humorous writings for children /Mark I. West --ch. 10.Good-enough Mother Hubbard /Lucy Rollin --ch. 11.Humpty Dumpty and the anxieties of the vulnerable child /Lucy Rollin --ch. 12.Dream imagery and the portrayal of childhood anxieties in nursery rhyme illustrations /Lucy Rollin --ch. 13.Repression and rebillion in the life and works of Beatrix Potter /Mark I. West --ch. 14.Depictions of the mother-child dyad in the work of Mary Cassatt and Jessie Willcox Smith /Lucy Rollin --ch. 15.Gazing and shame in early American children's literature /Mark I. West --ch. 16.Psychological roots of Anthony Comstock's campaign to censor dime novels /Mark I. West.