The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature Paperback (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Grenby, M. O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521687829 ISBN 13: 9780521687829

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

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This Companion surveys the history and contexts of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to Harry Potter. Essential reading for all students of children's literature, this book offers both a wealth of information and original research that reflects the latest developments in the field.

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'... concise, stimulating comments on other school stories from the late 20th century, such as Diana Wynne Jones's Witch Week, help cast the conventions and conventionality of the Harry Potter books into relief and draw attention to the numerous alternative school stories out there.' www.parentcentral.ca

'The Cambridge Companion, lucid, entertaining, and with hardly a word wasted, locates itself in an accessible, mainstream position, and generally does an outstanding job of playing critical and historical catch-up on its more established literary fellow disciplines ... beautiful to behold - books to cheer the bookperson's heart, and the inclusion in the series of a volume on Children's Literature, especially one as good as this, should be the cause of unalloyed delight.' Modern Language Review

' ... excellent, straightforward collection that covers the fundamentals. It is also a collection that inspires readers to delve deeper ... provides a perfect sampling of scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students, but this collection should also appeal to established scholars and experts in the field.' Muse

Biografía del autor:

M. O. Grenby is Reader in Children's Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Andrea Immel is Curator of the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University, New Jersey.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521687829
• ISBN 13: 9780521687829
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324