Introduction: "Performing the Didactic"
pp. v-vii
Acting out Crusoe: Pedagogy and Performance in Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature
pp. 131-145
The Didacticism That Laughs: John Newbery's Entertaining Little Books and William Hogarth's Pictured Morals
pp. 146-166
Leaving Little to the Imagination: The Mechanics of Didacticism in Two Children's Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Novels
pp. 167-188
Lust for Reading and Thirst for Knowledge: Fictive Letters in a Danish Children's Magazine of 1770
pp. 189-201
"Girls Aloud"; Dialogue as a Pedagogical Tool in Eighteenth-century French Children's Literature
pp. 202-218
Dramatic Monologues and the Novel-in-Verse: Adelaide O'Keeffe and the Development of Theatrical Children's Poetry in the long Eighteenth Century
pp. 219-234
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (review)
pp. 235-240
Into the Closet: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film (review)
pp. 241-244
The Family in English Children's Literature, and: The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal (review)
pp. 244-249
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (review)
pp. 249-253
Representing Africa in Children's Literature (review)
pp. 253-257