Rereading childhood books : a poetics / Alison Waller.

Introduction: Excavating; Paracanons and the lifelong reading act; Nostalgia, memoirs and re-memorying; Experiments in rereading; Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics; 1 The reading scene; Memory and the reading scene; Childhood reading and reminiscence; Childhood books and recollection; Rereading and recognition; Reconstructing through rereading; Conclusion; 2 The life space; The life space and autotopography; Co-reading; Learning to read; School and home; Reading spaces; Mapping reading; Conclusion

3 Affective tracesAffective traces and resonance; Pleasures; Passions; Grief; Fear; Desire and boredom; Conclusion; 4 Rereading attitudes; The uses of childhood books and rereading attitudes; Nostalgia; Rereading with children; As scholars; Understanding literary life; Conclusion; 5 Transforming, misremembering, forgetting; Transformed texts; Material mismatches; Translations and transmediations; Memory errors and misremembering; Forgetting and anamnesis; Conclusion; Conclusion: The lifelong reading act; Future directions; Final words; Appendix: Participants; Notes; Introduction: Excavating

1 The reading scene2 The life space; 3 Affective traces; 4 Rereading attitudes; 5 Transforming, misremembering, forgetting; Conclusion: The lifelong reading act; Bibliography