Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton

Children's Books in England

Five Centuries of Social Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1932, this classic study analyses the evolution of children's literature, and remains an invaluable resource today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781108033817
• ISBN-10: 1108033814
• Artikelnr.: 33874808

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. An introductory survey
2. The legacy of the middle ages: i. Fables
3. The legacy of the middle ages: ii. Romance and manners
4. The Puritans: 'Good godly books'
5. The Pedlar's pack: 'The running stationers'
6. Fairy-tale and nursery rhyme
7. Interim: between the old and the new
8. John Newbery
9. The theorists: Thomas Day, the Edgeworths, and French influence
10. The moral tale: i. Didactic
11. The moral tale: ii. Persuasive, chiefly in verse
12. Interim again: the dawn of levity
13. Two New Englands: 'Peter Parley' and 'Felix Summerly'
14. The Sixties, Alice and after
15. The Eighties and to-day: freedom
Index.