Children's Literature A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Name: Children's Literature A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
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ISBN: 9780226473017

ISBN-10: 0226473015

ISBN-13: 9780226473017

Edition: 2009

Authors: Seth Lerer

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Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction


Toward a New History of Children's Literature



Speak, Child


Children's Literature in Classical Antiquity



Ingenuity and Authority


Aesop's Fables and Their Afterlives



Court, Commerce, and Cloister


The Literatures of Medieval Childhood



From Alphabet to Elegy


The Puritan Impact on Children's Literature



Playthings of the Mind


John Locke and Children's Literature



Canoes and Cannibals


Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies



From Islands to Empires


Storytelling for a Boy's World



On Beyond Darwin


From Kingsley to Seuss



Ill-Tempered and Queer


Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern



Straw Into Gold


Fairy-Tale Philology



Theaters of Girlhood


Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction



Pan in the Garden


The Edwardian Turn in Children's Literature



Good Feeling


Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children's Literature



Keeping Things Straight


Style and the Child



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