Author Name
Hunt, Peter, editor. Associate editors: Dennis Butts, Ethel Heins, Margaret Kinnell, Tony Watkins. With Gillian Avery, Anne Scott MacLeod, Julia Briggs, Zena Sutherland, Peter Hollindale, Michael Stone, Roderick McGillis & Beth Gilderdale.
Title CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Fine
Jacket Condition Very Good
Edition First Edition
Publisher Oxford Oxford University Press 1995
ISBN Number
0192123203 / 9780192123206
Seller ID 27809
378 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Pictorial endpapers, many b&w and color photographs and reproductions. "(T)races the history of children's books in Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand from the very first printed books through to the present day. (This book) takes 'children's literature' to mean books designed for children as well as books for childhood, and so embraces everything from religious tracts to multi-media comics, from the 'classic' to the unashamedly popular. Written by leading experts, this survey shows that children's literature reflects how childhood has been defined, controlled, and appreciated at different times. It reveals how adults have explored questions of power, entertainment, sexuality, and equality through their writing for children, and demonstrates how the borders between what is adult and what children's fiction are routinely blurred. A series of chronological chapters charts the 'history' which begins in the sixteenth century with grammars and ABCs. We move from books of instruction through to fables and fantasies in the eighteenth century, from reward books and romance to school stories in the nineteenth, and on to comics, colour picture-books, and science fiction in (the twentieth century). Throughout the text, books, authors, illustrators, publishers, and children readers are discussed within their wider social, political, and economic environment. Richly illustrated in black and white and colour, and with a section on further reading, a full index, and a chronology which places books for children in their literary and political context, this is a fascinating study which will delight all readers, young and old." Dust jacket has minor edge wear and light edge wrinkling; tiny dent on front hinge; slight fading to color on front panel, spine, top edge and flap-folds.
Chldlren's
Literature,
Juvenile,
Reading,
Publishing,
Victorian,
American,
America,
Britain,
British,
Canada,
Canadian,
Australia,
Australian,
New
Zealand,
Books,
Grammars,
ABCs,
Picture,
Illustrated,
Fantasy,
Science
Fiction,
Reward,
School
Stories,
Adolescence,
Adventure,
Aesop,
Joan
Aiken,
Louisa
May
Alcott,
Horatio
Alger,
Hans
Andersen,
Animals,
R.M.
Ballantyne,
James
Barrie,
Enid
Blyton,
Angela
Brazil,
John
Bunyan,
Frances
Hodgson
Burnett,
Lewis
Carroll,
William
Caxton,
Chapbooks,
Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge,
Comics,
Crusoe
Tales,
Daniel
Defoe,
Charles
Dickens,
Maria
Edgeworth,
Education,
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Leon
Garfield,
Alan
Garner,
Samuel
Goodrich,
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Harris,
Thomas
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James
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Richard
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Charles
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Dorothy
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Charles
Kingsley,
Rudyard
Kipling,
Andrew
Lang,
Edward
Lear,
C.S.
Lewis,
Penelope
Lively,
John
Locke,
George
MacDonald,
Captain
Marryat,
John
Masefield,
William
Mayne,
A.A.
Milne,
Mrs
Molesworth,
Hannah
More,
Edith
Nesbit,
John
Newbery,
Opie,
Jill
Paton
Walsh,
Philippa
Pearce,
Play,
Playing,
Poetry,
Protestants,
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Arthur
Rackham,
Arthur
Ransome,
Religion,
Morality,
Romanticism,
Sexuality,
Mary
Martha
Sherwood,
Social
Realism,
Robert
Louis
Stevenson,
Time
Travel,
J.R.R.
Tolkien,
Geoffrey
Trease,
Sarah
Trimmer,
Mark
Twain,
United
States,
War,
Isaac
Watts,
Laura
Ingalls
Wilder,
William
Wordsworth,
Charlotte
M.
Yonge.
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