Charlie Butler: Publications
Books (authored)
The Darkling (London: Orion, 1997; New York: McElderry, 1998). Published in Danish as Skyggen Masker (Copenhagen: Carlsen, 1998). 169pp.
Timon's Tide (London: Orion, 1998; New York: McElderry, 2000).186pp.
Calypso Dreaming (London: HarperCollins, 2002).191pp.
The Fetch of Mardy Watt (London: HarperCollins, 2004). 223pp.
Death of a Ghost (London: HarperCollins, 2006). 202pp.
Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Diana Wynne Jones (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press/Children's Literature Association, 2006). i-viii+311pp.
Winner of Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies 2009
The Lurkers (London: Usborne, 2006). Published in German as Wettlauf Gegen die Zeit (Hamburg: Cora Verlag, 2007). pp.171
Shortlisted for 2007 Southern Schools Book Award
Kiss of Death (Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2007). pp48.
Hand of Blood (Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2009). pp55.
Books (edited)
Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater. Edited with introduction (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1995), pp.v-xli.
Teaching Children's Fiction. Edited with introduction and appendices (London: Palgrave, 2006), pp.1-5, 189-205.
Scholarly Articles and Chapters
'Integrating computing into the history curriculum,' History and Computing 5 (1993), 199-203.
'The Stagirite and the Scarecrow: Stanza 3 of Cowley's ode "To the Royal Society" (1667)', Restoration 21 (1997), 1-14.
'Alan Garner's Red Shift and the Shifting Ballad of "Tam Lin"', Children's Literature Association Quarterly 26.2 (Summer 2001). 74-83.
Children's Literature Association Honor Article (2001)
'"Now Here: Where Now?" Magic as Reality and as Metaphor in the Work of Diana Wynne Jones', in Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, ed. Teya Rosenberg et al (Peter Lang, 2002), 66-78.
'An Interview with Diana Wynne Jones', in Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (Peter Lang, 2002), 163-72.
'"You are feeling very sleepy…": hypnosis, enchantment and mind-control in children's fiction', in Children's Fantasy Fiction: Debates for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Nickianne Moody and Clare Horrocks (Association for Research in Popular Fictions, 2005), 175-90.
'Holiday Work: On Writing for Children and for the Academy.' Commissioned article for Children's Literature in Education. 38.3 (Sept. 2007), 163-72.
'After the Inklings.' In The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference, ed. Sarah Wells (Tolkien Society, 2008).
'Experimental Girls: Feminist and Transgender Discourse in Bill's New Frock and Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?' Children's Literature Association Quarterly 34.1 (March 2009). 3-20.
'Children of the Stones: Prehistoric Sites in British Children's Fantasy, 1965-2005.' In Written on Stone: the Cultural Reception of Prehistoric Monuments, ed. Joanne Parker (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), 143-54.
Forthcoming: 'Modern Children's Fantasy,' in Modern Fantasy Literature, edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (CUP, 2009).
Forthcoming: 'Film', 'Postmodernism', 'Psychological Approaches'. Chapters in Children's Literature Studies: A Handbook for Research, edited by Kimberley Reynolds and Matthew Grenby (Palgrave, 2009).
Forthcoming: Guest co-editor (with Hallie O'Donovan and Maureen Kincaid Speller) of special issue Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, devoted to Diana Wynne Jones (2010).
Shorter Academic Works
Review of A Comprehensive Concordance to The Faerie Queene 1590, and the accompanying Textual Companion. Notes and Queries 238 (1993), 538-540.
'Jacobean Literature', in The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (London: Macmillan, 1998), 275-76.
Review of The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. Notes and Queries 247 (2002), 515-16.
'Alan Garner.' The Literary Encyclopedia.
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'Susan Cooper.' Literary Encyclopedia.
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'Diana Wynne Jones.' Literary Encyclopedia.
< http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=6037> 2006.
Review of Douglas A. Brooks (ed.), Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England. Notes and Queries (2007), 102-103.
Review of Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585), ed. Nandini Das. Notes and Queries (2009), 1-2.
"The Gothic in Children's Literature," with Hallie O'Donovan. In The Handbook of the Gothic, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Macmillan) [revised edition]: 129-31.
Miscellaneous
'Language and Thought Control (1): Ogden, Wells, Orwell', The Good Society Review, June 1993.
'Language and Thought Control (2): John Wilkins and the Idea of a Philosophical Language', The Good Society Review, September 1993.
'Animal Vivisection: The Natural History of a Scruple', The Good Society Review, January 1994.
The Siren's Song [opera libretto] (OUP, 1988).
