3 “I do believe in fairies, I do, I do”: The History and Epistemology of Peter Pan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Peter Pan Chronology xi
5. Introduction: From Peanut Butter Jars to the Silver Screen 1
6. 1 Tinker Bell, the Fairy of Electricity 13
7. 2 “To die will be an awfully big adventure”: Peter Pan in World War I 50
8. 3 “I do believe in fairies, I do, I do”: The History and Epistemology of Peter Pan 75
9. 4 “Shadow of [a] girl”: An Examination of Peter Pan in Performance 105
10. 5 Peter Pan and the Possibilities of Child Literature 132
11. 6 Disney’s Peter Pan: Gender, Fantasy, and Industrial Production 151
12. 7 Hooked on Pan: Barrie’s Immortal Pirate in Fiction and Film 188
13. 8 “Gay, Innocent, and Heartless”: Peter Pan and the Queering of Popular Culture 219
14. 9 Peter and Me (or How I Learned to Fly): Network Television Broadcasts of Peter Pan 243
15. List of Contributors 265
16. Index 269