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03357aam a2200409 i 4500 001 98C241B8E96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 170802t20182018enkaf b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017954543 020 $a 0199583471 020 $a 9780199583478 035 $a (OCoLC)996416545 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d INU $d GUA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PR990 $b .M87 2018 082 04 $a 820.9/9282 $2 23 100 1 $a Murnaghan, Sheila, $d 1951- $e author. 245 10 $a Childhood and the classics : $b Britain and America, 1850-1965 / $c Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xv, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Classical presences 520 $a "The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the ways in which children encountered the world of ancient Greece and Rome in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the 1850s, as well as adults' literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. Rather than discussing the role of classics in education, it focuses on books read for enjoyment, and on two genres of children's literature in particular: the myth collection and the historical novel. The tradition of myths retold as children's stories is traced in the work of writers and illustrators from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Kingsley to Roger Lancelyn Green and Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, while the discussion of historical fiction focuses particularly on the roles of nationality and gender in the construction of an ancient world for modern children. The book concludes with an investigation of the connections between childhood and antiquity made by writers for adults, including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. Recognition of the fundamental role in children's literature of adults' ideas about what children want or need is balanced throughout by attention to the ways in which child readers have made such works their own. The formative experiences of antiquity discussed throughout help to explain why despite growing uncertainty about the appeal of antiquity to modern children, the classical past remains perennially interesting and inspiring."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-325) and index. 650 0 $a Children's literature, English $z Great Britain $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a Children's literature, English $z United States $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a Mythology, Classical, in literature. 650 0 $a Historical fiction, English $z Great Britain $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Historical fiction, English $z United States $x History and criticism. 700 1 $a Roberts, Deborah H., $e author. 830 0 $a Classical presences. 941 $a 2 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190726011913.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212015602.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=98C241B8E96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search