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Author:

Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and index.

Contents:

8. On beyond Darwin : from Kingsley to Seuss -- 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 --
Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. Children's literature and the history of the book -- 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.

ISBN:

9780226473017 (pbk.)
0226473015 (pbk.)
0226473007 (alk. paper)
9780226473000 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)176980408

LCCN:

2007046708

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UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

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PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

HUAX887 -- Southwestern Community College Library - Creston (Creston) — HUAX887

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OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

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HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

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DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

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