Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts

Popular Children's Literature in Britain (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-century chapbooks to the stories of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, and from science schoolbooks to Harry Potter, these essays show how authorial talent operates within its cultural context to make a children's classic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351910033
• Artikelnr.: 49354419

Autorenporträt

Julia Briggs was, until her death in 2007, Professor of English Literature at De Montfort University, UK. She was the author of many books, including Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story (1977), This Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625 (1983), A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit (1987) and Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life (2005). Dennis Butts taught children's literature at Reading University, UK. He has written widely about children's books, and edited many scholarly editions and critical studies including Stories and Society: Children's Literature in its Social Context (1992) and From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The Religious Tract Society (2006). M.O. Grenby is Reader in Children's Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He has published extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural history and on children's literature. His books include The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution (2001) and the Edinburgh Critical Guide to Children's Literature (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: General introduction
M.O. Grenby; Part 1 Old Tales Retold: Introduction
M.O. Grenby; Before children's literature: children
chapbooks and popular culture in early modern Britain
M.O. Grenby; Robin Hood in boys' weeklies to 1914
Kevin Carpenter; From Madame d'Aulnoy to Mother Bunch: popularity and the fairy tale
David Blamires; From chapbooks to pantomime
George Speaight with Brian Alderson. Part 2 Forgotten Favourites: Introduction
Julia Briggs; Finding and sustaining a popular appeal: the case of Barbara Hofland
Dennis Butts; Telling the other side: Hesba Stretton's 'outcast' stories
Elaine Lomax; Exploiting a formula: the adventure stories of G.A. Henty (1832-1902)
Dennis Butts; Angela Brazil and the making of the girls' school story
Judy Simons. Part 3 Popular Instruction
Popularity Imposed: Introduction
M.O. Grenby; Rewarding reads? Giving
receiving and resisting evangelical reward and prize books
Kimberley Reynolds; Tracts
classic and brands: science for children in the 19th century
Aileen Fyfe; Popular education and big money: Mee
Hammerton and Northcliffe
Gillian Avery. Part 4 The Famous Three - Blyton
Dahl and Rowling: Introduction
Julia Briggs; From Froebel teacher to English Disney: the phenomenal success of Enid Blyton
David Rudd; 'And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land'. The outrageous success of Roald Dahl
Peter Hollindale; 'The most popular ever': the launching of Harry Potter
Julia Eccleshare; The brand
the intertext and the reader: reading desires in the 'Harry Potter' series
Stacy Gillis; Further reading; Index.