Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801 - 1902 (Blackwell Anthologies) - Hardcover

Hunt, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631210482 ISBN 13: 9780631210481

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

EDITED BY ONE OF THE LEADING SCHOLARS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE STUDIES, THIS HIGHLY ENTERTAINING AND SCHOLARLY ANTHOLOGY FEATURES OVER 120 COMPLETE WORKS, POEMS, STORIES, AND EXTRACTS FROM NOVELS. INCLUDES OVER 120 COMPLETE WORKS, POEMS, STORIES AND EXTRACTS FROM NOVELS. PROVIDES AN ENTERTAINING AND SCHOLARLY VIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN THE UK AND THE USA, WITH REPRESENTATIVE PIECES FROM CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND. INCLUDES BOTH FAMOUS BOOKS AND POEMS, AS WELL AS LESS WELL–KNOWN BUT FASCINATING EXAMPLES. FEATURES A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BEST CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL SECONDARY SOURCES.

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Críticas:

"Children's literature has a rich tradition and this carefully selected anthology demonstrates its strength and variety very well." Reference Reviews "Boys' stories, fairy stories, moral and educational tales, nonsense poems, tall stories and fantasy - this new anthology of children's literature covers a full range of nineteenth-century texts including a good selection of unfamiliar works from the United States, Canada and Australia." TLS

Reseña del editor:

This anthology of nineteenth-century English-language children's literature brings together over 120 works, including poems, stories and extracts from novels. The collection explores both famous and lesser-known works from writers as diverse as Maria Edgeworth, Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Catherine Parr Traill, Charles Kingsley, Horatio Alger Jr, Susan Coolidge, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ethel Turner, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Rudyard Kipling. All texts are introduced with contextualizing headnotes and are organized chronologically: they can also be referenced by theme, genre, author and country.Peter Hunt's introduction discusses the ways in which the history of children's literature may be, and has been, read, and sets out four key criteria for selecting the texts: that they are historically significant, representative of their period or country, readable, and comprehensible in extract form. Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this important anthology will provide students and general readers with an indispensable, much needed, and above all, entertaining account of the development of the form in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0631210482
• ISBN 13: 9780631210481
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496