ABSTRACT
Non-places in British Victorian and Edwardian children's fantasy literature offer special opportunities to teach spatiality. The fantastical geographies of Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows interact with contemporary concerns over science, religion, social injustice, social unrest, the urban, and the rural. Kingsley, Carroll, Nesbit, and Grahame's narratives belong to the canon of children's literature and could be used individually or together in various courses. Apart from undergraduate/graduate courses on children's literature or fantasy literature, these books would fit in well with courses on science, religion, gender studies, the Victorian and/or Edwardian periods, and popular culture. While students could easily read one or more of these books in its entirety, selected passages would also work well to fit the needs of a course.
