History, magistra vitae, is traditionally linked with children’s literature, both as the subject of course books, enriched with

images and chronologies, and as narration, portraying events or characters / heroes / protagonists of a given historical period. In

both instances, such relationship functions through the “emplotment” described by Hayden White as essential to the

discursive nature of all texts – history included.  

   

Scientific  Coordinator  Francesca  Orestano,  Chair  in  English  Literature  

Università  degli  Studi  di  Milano  francesca.orestano@unimi.it  

 Organizing  Committee  

Marco  Canani  –  marco.canani@unimi.it  Angela  Anna  Iuliucci  –  angela.iuliucci@unimi.it    

 

Children’s Literature in Italy

A Website Devoted to the Study of Children’s Books and Literature in Italy

http://users.unimi.it/childlit

con il patrocinio di

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND THE TEACHING OF HISTORY /

LETTERATURA PER L’INFANZIA E INSEGNAMENTO DELLA STORIA

                           

 8  novembre  2013  

Aula  Crociera  Alta  di  Giurisprudenza    Via  Festa  del  Perdono  7  –  ore  9.30  

***************************************************   9:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 10:00 PETER HUNT

Emeritus  Cardiff  University,    Visiting  Professor,  Università  di  Venezia  Ca’  Foscari  Fiction  Writing  History:  Truth,  Illusion  and  Ideology  in  English  Language  Historical  Fiction  for  Children  

10:30 DAVID PAROISSIEN

University  of  Buckingham  Wringing  the  Necks  of  Parrots:  the  Mixed  Modes  of  Dickens’s  “little  history  of  England”

11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:30 HANNAH FIELD

University  of  Lincoln  History  Unfolds:  Two  Victorian  Children’s  Panoramas  of  Kings  and  Queens  

12:00 JOHN MEDDEMMEN

Università  degli  Studi  di  Pavia  “God  for  Harry,  England  and  St.  George”.  Mediaeval  English  History  in  the  Novels  of  G.  A.  Henty.  

12:30 LAURA TOSI,

Università  di  Venezia  Ca’  Foscari  “These  plays  might  almost  serve  as  a  handbook  to  patriotism”:  Prose  adaptations  of  Henry  V  for  Children,  1893-­‐1911,  Nationalism,  Empire  and  War.  

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

***************************************************   14:00 LINDSAY MYERS

National  University  of  Ireland,  Galway  L’Aeroplano  di  Girandolino  -­‐  Un  romanzo  sulla  guerra?  

14:30 MARIANGELA MOSCA BONSIGNORE

Università  degli  Studi  di  Torino  Contemporary  History  in  Illustrated  Alphabets.  From  Charles  II  and  William  of  Orange  to  the  First  World  War.  

15:00 FRANCESCA ORESTANO

Università  degli  Studi  di  Milano  Salvator  Gotta,  the    “Piccolo  Alpino”  and  the  Young  “Balilla”:    Militarism  and  the  Rise  of  Fascism  in  Italian  Fiction,  from  the  1890s  to  the  1930s    

15:30 ANGELA ANNA IULIUCCI Università  degli  Studi  di  Milano  In  Flanders’  Fields:  Recent  Representations  of  the  War  

 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:30 MARCO CANANI

Università  degli  Studi  di  Milano  The   Displaced   Subjectivity   of   the   Refugee   Child:   Judith   Kerr’s  When  Hitler  Stole  Pink  Rabbit    

17:00 MARTINO NEGRI Università  degli  Studi  di  Milano  Bicocca  Memory  Threatened.  Story-­‐Telling  Trees  

17:30 MARGARET ROSE

Università  degli  Studi  di  Milano  Alan  Bennett’s    “The  History  Boys”:  A  Play  Addressing  How  We  Write  and  Teach  History    

18:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS