Explores what nineteenth-century alphabet books can tell us about literacy and constructions of childhood in Britain throughout this period. The volume shows how artists and writers including William Thackeray, Edward Lear, and Kate Greenaway participated in ongoing debates about what counted as literacy and how reading should be taught.
Explores what nineteenth-century alphabet books can tell us about literacy and constructions of childhood in Britain throughout this period. The volume shows how artists and writers including William Thackeray, Edward Lear, and Kate Greenaway participated in ongoing debates about what counted as literacy and how reading should be taught.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
For more than twenty years, A. Robin Hoffman's research has focused on children's literature and Victorian illustration. This includes master's degrees in English (University of Connecticut, 2005) and art history (University College London, 2007) and a PhD in English, completed spring 2012 at the University of Pittsburgh. That fall, she began a postdoctoral fellowship in museum publishing at the Yale Center for British Art, where she became a curatorial staff member in 2015. Upon moving to Chicago in 2017, Robin joined the publishing department at the Art Institute of Chicago and is now Senior Editor.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: The Alphabet and Literacies * 1: Alphabet Books and Satire at the Dawn of Victorian England * 2: Mid-Century Alphabet Books and Waiting for the Revolution * 3: The Perils and Pleasures of Pronunciation and Perspective in Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabets * 4: Walter Crane, the Alphabet, and the Value of "So-Called Children's Books * 5: Brand-Name Alphabet Books and Reading the Victorian Marketplace * 6: Inevitable Literacy and the Alphabet at the Fin de Siècle * Works Cited
* Introduction: The Alphabet and Literacies * 1: Alphabet Books and Satire at the Dawn of Victorian England * 2: Mid-Century Alphabet Books and Waiting for the Revolution * 3: The Perils and Pleasures of Pronunciation and Perspective in Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabets * 4: Walter Crane, the Alphabet, and the Value of "So-Called Children's Books * 5: Brand-Name Alphabet Books and Reading the Victorian Marketplace * 6: Inevitable Literacy and the Alphabet at the Fin de Siècle * Works Cited
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