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Author:

Richmond, Velma Bourgeois, author.

Title:

The Faerie Queene as children's literature : Victorian and Edwardian retellings in words and pictures / Velma Bourgeois Richmond.

Publisher:

McFarland & CompanyInc., Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

vii, 275 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Spenser, Edmund,--1552?-1599.--Faerie queene.
Spenser, Edmund,--1552?-1599--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Spenser, Edmund,--1552?-1599--Appreciation--English-speaking countries.
Spenser, Edmund,--1552?-1599.
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
Children--History--English-speaking countries--History--19th century.
Children--History--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.
Art appreciation.
Children--Books and reading.
Children's literature, English.
Literature--Adaptations.
English-speaking countries.
1800-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-266) and index.

Contents:

Preface -- Contexts and criticism -- Victorian beginnings -- Edwardian extravagance -- American difference -- Schoolbooks -- Literary histories -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. The poem was later made over as children's literature, retold in lavish volumes and schoolbooks and appreciated in pedagogical studies and literary histories"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1476666172 (softcover : alk. paper)
9781476666174 (softcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)948547782

LCCN:

2016023718

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)