Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter /
Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. Seth Lerer here explores the iconic books, ancient and contemporary ali...
| Основен автор: | Lerer, Seth, 1955- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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Print version::
Children's literature. |
Съдържание:
- List of illustrations
- Introduction :
- Toward a new history of children's literature
- 1.
- Speak, child : children's literature in classical antiquity
- 2.
- Ingenuity and authority : Aesop's fables and their afterlives
- 3.
- Court, commerce, and cloister : the literatures of medieval childhood
- 4.
- From alphabet to elegy : the Puritan impact on children's literature
- 5.
- Playthings of the mind : John Locke and children's literature
- 6.
- Canoes and cannibals : Robinson Crusoe and its legacies
- 7.
- From islands to empires : storytelling for a boy's world
- 8.
- On beyond Darwin : from Kingsley to Seuss.
- 9.
- Ill-tempered and queer : sense and nonsense, from Victorian to modern
- 10.
- Straw into gold : fairy-tale philology
- 11.
- Theaters of girlhood : domesticity, desire, and performance in female fiction
- 12.
- Pan in the garden : the Edwardian turn in children's literature
- 13.
- Good feeling : prizes, libraries, and the institutions of American children's literature
- 15.
- Keeping things straight : style and the child
- 15.
- Tap your pencil on the paper : children's literature in an ironic age
- Epilogue :
- Children's literature and the history of the book
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.