Founded in 1972 and published by the Yale University Press since 1980, Children's Literature has established a reputation for serious analysis and interpretation covering all aspects of literature for children and adolescents and representing a wide variety of approaches. Volume 18 uses various psychoanalytic master narratives, as found in the writings of Freud, Jung, Piaget, Bettelheim, and others, to discuss the relationship between psychoanalysis and children's literature.
Articles: Mothers and Daughters: Jamaica Kincaid's Pre-Oedipal Narrative, by Roni Natov / The Velveteen Rabbit: A Kleinian Perspective, by Steven V. Daniels / "Unlocked by Love": William Steig's Tales of Transformation and Magic, by Arlene Wilner / The Reproduction of Mothering in Charlotte's Web, by Lucy Rollin / From the Myth to the Wake of Home: Literary Houses, by Virginia L. Wolf / Maurice Sendak's Ritual Cooking of the Child In Three Tableaux: The Moon, Mother, and Music, by Jean Perrot / Psychological, Sensual, and Religious Initiation in Tournier's Pierrot ou les secrets de la nuit, by Susan Petit / The Manuscript of Peter Pan, by R.D.S. Jack / The Kiss In a Box, by Richard Rotert
Comments: Why Bettelheim?, by Michael Steig / Notes Toward a Marxist Critical Practice, by Jerry Phillips & Ian Wojcik-Andrews / The Doubtful Marriage: A Critical Fantasy, by U.C. Knoepflmacher / What's Wrong with the Psychoanalysis of Literature?, by Patrick Hogan / Negating History and Male Fantasies Through Psychoanalytic Criticism, by Jack Zipes
Varia: John Martin's Book: An Almost Forgotten Children's Magazine / Martin Gardner
Reviews: The Age of Innocence, by Janice M. Alberghene / Russian Modernism for Children, by Kristine Bushnell / Caldecott and the English Picture Book Tradition, by Gillian Avery / Series Fiction Then and Now, by Anita Susan Grossman / Of Archetypes and Heffalumps, by William F. Touponce / Pursuing Beauty's Origins, by Leo Zanderer / Characters On the Couch, by Mark I. West
Dissertations of Note, by Rachel Fordyce / Contributors and Editors / Awards