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Author Lerer, Seth, 1955-

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

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  809 L562    Check Shelf
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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  809.89282 LER    Check Shelf
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Description ix, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-375) and index.
Contents List of illustrations -- Introduction : Toward a new history of children's literature -- 1. Speak, child : children's literature in classical antiquity -- 2. Ingenuity and authority : Aesop's fables and their afterlives -- 3. Court, commerce, and cloister : the literatures of medieval childhood -- 4. From alphabet to elegy : the Puritan impact on children's literature -- 5. Playthings of the mind : John Locke and children's literature -- 6. Canoes and cannibals : Robinson Crusoe and its legacies -- 7. From islands to empires : storytelling for a boy's world -- 8. On beyond Darwin : from Kingsley to Seuss --
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.
Summary 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.
Subject Children's literature -- History and criticism.
ISBN 9780226473000 alkaline paper
0226473007 alkaline paper
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