By Kirsten Stirling
This ebook is a literary research of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in all its assorted types -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and contains a synthesis of the most serious interpretations of the textual content over its historical past. A accomplished and clever research of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this research discusses the book’s complex textual historical past, exploring its origins within the Harlequinade theatrical culture and British pantomime within the 19th century. Stirling investigates power textual and extra-textual resources for Peter Pan, the severe tendency to hunt assets in Barrie’s personal biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to give an explanation for, contextualize, or shut off, Barrie’s exploration of the mind's eye. The assets thought of comprise Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s Starcatchers trilogy, Régis Loisel’s six-part Peter Pan photograph novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin’s The misplaced Boys sequence, the movies Hook (1991), Peter Pan (2003) and Finding Neverland (2004), and Geraldine McCaughrean’s "official sequel" Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006), between others.
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