Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter / Seth Lerer.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780226473017
- 0226473007 (alk. paper)
- 809/.89282 22
- PN1009. A1 L44 2008
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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 /