CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction, Elisabeth Wesseling

Part I: The Cultural Dynamics of Cross-Generational (Re-)appropriation

1 Historical Roots of Consumption-Based Nostalgia for Childhood in the US., Gary Cross

2 Nostalgia or Innovation? The Adaptation of Dutch Children’s Books into Films,

Helma van Lierop,

3 Superheroes and Identity: The Role of Nostalgia in Comic Book Culture, Carol Tilley

4 (Re-)Constructing Childhood Memories: Nostalgia, Creativity

and the Expanded Worlds of the Lego Fan Community, Lincoln Geraghty

Part II: Childhood Nostalgia and Memorial Politics

5 Nostalgic Panoramas of Childhood: Toy Objects in Ireland (1851-1909), Vanessa Rutherford

6 Making Children’s ‘Classics’: Making Past Childhoods Children’s ‘Classics’ as Sites for Memory Politics and Nostalgia, Helle Strandgaard Jensen

7 Propaganda and Nostalgia: Constructing Memories about the German Democratic Republic for Secondary School Children, Luke Springman

8 Communist Childhoods and Nostalgia: A Cultural Analysis of Online Remembrance Strategies (2006-2011), Codruta Pohrib

9 Lost in Nostalgia: Images of Childhood in Photo Books for Children,

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

Part III: Modalities of Nostalgia

10 Looking for Asymmetries: A Theoretical Approach to Childhood Nostalgia in Pre-Figurative Culture, Mariano Narodowski

11 Perverse Nostalgia: Child Sex Abuse as Trauma Commodity in Neo-Victorian Fiction,

Mel Kohlke

12 "Scared Straight" and Beyond: The Presumption of Teenaged Guilt and the Perpetuation of Defeated Paradigms, Joshua Garrison

13 Teenage Nostalgia: Perpetual Adolescents in Little Children (2006) and Young Adult (2011),

Anita Wohlmann

14 Ambivalent longings: Nostalgia in the Picturebooks of Pieter Gaudesaboos, Vanessa Joosen

15 Children’s Music and Nostalgia: Digging in the Past with an Eye to the Future,

Ingeborg Lunde Vestad

16 Happiness is Quite Common: Postmemory of the 1950s in De Daltons (1999-2010),

Elisabeth Wesseling

Part IV: Nostalgic Science

17 Comics, Childhood, and Nostalgia: Frederic Wertham and the Comic Book Panic of the 1950s, Andrew O’Malley

18 Back to Where We Came From: Evolutionary Psychology and Children’s Literature and Media, Karin Lesnik-Oberstein and Neil Cocks

Notes on Contributors

Index

Elisabeth Wesseling is Director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.