Kenneth B. KiddFreud in Oz
At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature
Kenneth B. Kidd is associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (Minnesota, 2004).
Contents
Introduction: Reopening the Case of Peter Pan
1. Kids, Fairy Tales, and the Uses of Enchantment
2. Child Analysis, Play, and the Golden Age of Pooh
3. Three Case Histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and Oz
4. Maurice Sendak and Picturebook Psychology
5. “A Case History of Us All”: The Adolescent Novel before and after
Salinger
6. T Is for Trauma: The Children’s Literature of Atrocity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
