Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100

Margaret Mackey

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002 - Education - 200 pages

Thirteen essays explore the timeless appeal of Peter's antics, and the impact of this extraordinary book on children worldwide. Contributors, each a respected scholar in the field of children's literature, examine details of Potter's life, her history as an artist, her accomplishments as a naturalist, and the contextual factors affecting her writing and illustrations. Others investigate the timelessness of this story, exploring its psychological and sociological truths and comparing Peter Rabbit to present day literature.

Contents

• Contemporary Urban Children Respond to Peter Rabbit Making a Text Culturally Relevant: 3
• An Unusual Hero Perspective and Point of View in The Tale of Peter Rabbit: 19
• PreText: 31
• The Story of The Tale of Peter Rabbit: 33
• Beatrix Potters Art: 43
• Beatrix Potter and John Everett Millais Reproductive Technologies and Coolhunting: 53
• ConText: 77
• You Should Not Loiter Longer Beatrix Potter Christina Rossetti and Progressive Intertextual Revision: 79
• Radical Qualities of The Tale of Peter Rabbit: 99
• In Search of His Fathers Garden: 117
• A Jungian Perspective on the Enduring Appeal of Peter Rabbit: 131
• Why Children Come Back The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Where the Wild Things Are: 145
• PostText: 159
• Humans Are So Rabbit: 161
• The Mediation and Multiplication of Peter Rabbit: 173
• Peter Rabbit in Japan and My Approach to Beatrix Potters World: 189
• About the Contributors: 197

About the author

Margaret Mackey is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta, Canada. She researches youth literacies – print, media, and digital. She has authored five books (most recently One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography), edited four, and written over a hundred refereed articles and book chapters. She edited Children's Literature in Education for eleven years.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100; Issue 1 of Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies; Volume 1 of Children's Literature Association centennial studies: Children's Literature Association; Issue 1 of G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Editor: Margaret Mackey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002
• ISBN: 0810841975, 9780810841970
• Length: 200 pages
• Subjects: Education / Reference; Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature