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Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter / Seth Lerer.

By: Lerer, Seth, 1955-Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. Description: ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226473017; 0226473007 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Children's literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809/.89282 LOC classification: PN1009. A1 | L44 2008Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Introduction Toward a New History of Children’s Literature / Chapter One Speak, Child: Children’s Literature in Classical Antiquity / Chapter Two Ingenuity and Authority: Aesop’s Fables and Their Afterlives / Chapter Three Court, Commerce, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood / Chapter Four From Alphabet to Elegy: The Puritan Impact on Children’s Literature / Chapter Five Playthings of the Mind: John Locke and Children’s Literature / Chapter Six Canoes and Cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies / Chapter Seven From Islands to Empires: Storytelling for a Boy’s World / Chapter Eight On beyond Darwin: From Kingsley to Seuss / Chapter Nine Ill-Tempered and Queer: Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern / Chapter Ten Straw into Gold: Fairy-Tale Philology / Chapter Eleven Theaters of Girlhood: Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction / Chapter Twelve Pan in the Garden: The Edwardian Turn in Children’s Literature / Chapter Thirteen Good Feeling: Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children’s Literature / Chapter Fourteen Keeping Things Straight: Style and the Child / Chapter Fifteen Tap Your Pencil on the Paper: Children’s Literature in an Ironic Age / Epilogue Children’s Literature and the History of the Book /
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and index.

Introduction Toward a New History of Children’s Literature / Chapter One Speak, Child: Children’s Literature in Classical Antiquity / Chapter Two Ingenuity and Authority: Aesop’s Fables and Their Afterlives / Chapter Three Court, Commerce, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood / Chapter Four From Alphabet to Elegy: The Puritan Impact on Children’s Literature / Chapter Five Playthings of the Mind: John Locke and Children’s Literature / Chapter Six Canoes and Cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies / Chapter Seven From Islands to Empires: Storytelling for a Boy’s World / Chapter Eight On beyond Darwin: From Kingsley to Seuss / Chapter Nine Ill-Tempered and Queer: Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern / Chapter Ten Straw into Gold: Fairy-Tale Philology / Chapter Eleven Theaters of Girlhood: Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction / Chapter Twelve Pan in the Garden: The Edwardian Turn in Children’s Literature / Chapter Thirteen Good Feeling: Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children’s Literature / Chapter Fourteen Keeping Things Straight: Style and the Child / Chapter Fifteen Tap Your Pencil on the Paper: Children’s Literature in an Ironic Age / Epilogue Children’s Literature and the History of the Book /