Lost Futures: Reading, Memory, and Repression

Children's novels sometimes allude to events in the lives of their protagonists after end main narrative, either through assertions authoritative narrators or speculations child characters themselves. Such predictions offer a hostage fortune, however, for history may take different direction from that envisaged by narrative. In such cases, readers must find way navigate contradictions between fictional and actual histories. That navigation is always potentially problematic, but perhaps particularly so case Golden Age fictions as Peter Wendy (1911) The Story Amulet ( 1906 ), which were right age have reached adulthood with advent Great War. This article describes strategies developed later writers cope disjunction historical futures.