TY - BOOK AU - Lerer,Seth TI - Children's literature: a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter SN - 9780226473017 AV - PN1009. A1 L44 2008 U1 - 809/.89282 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Children's literature KW - History and criticism N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007046708-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007046708-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007046708-d.html ER -