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Mystery in Children's Literature charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural and horror mysteries. Written by internationally recognized scholars in the field, these 13 original essays offer challenging and innovative readings of both classic and popular mysteries for children. This volume will be essential and stimulating for anyone with an interest in children's literature or in mystery fiction.

Adrienne E. Gavin is Senior Lecturer in English at Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK.

Christopher Routledge is writer based in Lancashire, UK.

Notes on Contributors

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Mystery in Children's Literature from the Rational to the Supernatural: an Introduction

1

(13)

Adrienne E. Gavin

Christopher Routledge

'so great and beautiful that I cannot write them': Religious Mystery and Children's Literature

14

(18)

Pat Pinsent

Nancy's Ancestors: the Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess

32

(14)

Mary Jeanette Moran

The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls, and the Nancy Drew Mysteries

46

(18)

Troy Boone

Children's Detective Fiction and the `Perfect Crime' of Adulthood

64

(18)

Christopher Routledge

Digging up the Family Plot: Secrets, Mystery, and the Blytonesque

82

(18)

David Rudd

Plotting the Past: the Detective as Historian in the Novels of Philippa Pearce

100

(15)

Valerie Krips

The Secret Development of a Girl Writer: Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy

115

(16)

Robin Amelia Morris

Apparition and Apprehension: Supernatural Mystery and Emergent Womanhood in Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Novels

131

(18)

Adrienne E. Gavin

Margaret Mahy

Possessed by the Beast: Subjectivity and Agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell

149

(16)

Clare Bradford

`There Are Worse Things Than Ghosts': Reworking Horror Chronotopes in Australian Children's Fiction

165

(19)

John Stephens

Robyn McCallum

The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children

184

(18)

Karen Coats

Harry Potter and the Mystery of Ordinary Life

202

(8)

Christopher Routledge

Enigma's Variation: the Puzzling Mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin, Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg

210

(9)

Adrienne E. Gavin

Index

219

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