Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter
Book |
University of Chicago Press,
Chicago :
2008.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welland Main | REF J809.89282 Lerer | Children - Non-Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
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 alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Along the way, Lerer also looks at the changing environments of family life and human growth, schooling and scholarship, and publishing and politics in which children found themselves changed by the books they read. This ambitious work appraises a broad trajectory of influences--including Shakespeare's plays, John Locke's theories of education, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and the Puritan tradition--which have each shaped children's literature through the ages as well.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9780226473000
- Physical Description: ix, 385 pages : illustrationsprint
- Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-375) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: 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.