ISBN: 9780748629848

This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British and North American children`s literature from its seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Each chapter … More...

This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British and North American children`s literature from its seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Each chapter focuses on one of the main genres of children`s literature: fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, the school story, and poetry. M. O. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over three hundred years as well as asking why most children`s books, even today, continue to fall into one or other of these generic categories. Why, for instance, has fantasy been so appealing to both Victorian and twenty-first-century children Are the religious and moral stories written in the eighteenth century really so different from the teenage problem novels of today The book answers questions like these with a combination of detailed analysis of particular key texts and a broad survey of hundreds of children`s books, both famous and forgotten. Children`s Literature: This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British and North American children`s literature from its seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Each chapter focuses on one of the main genres of children`s literature: fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, the school story, and poetry. M. O. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over three hundred years as well as asking why most children`s books, even today, continue to fall into one or other of these generic categories. Why, for instance, has fantasy been so appealing to both Victorian and twenty-first-century children Are the religious and moral stories written in the eighteenth century really so different from the teenage problem novels of today The book answers questions like these with a combination of detailed analysis of particular key texts and a broad survey of hundreds of children`s books, both famous and forgotten., Edinburgh University Press<

ISBN: 9780748629848

The first concise guide to children's literature for a decade providing extensive coverage across genres, continents and from the beginnings of the form to Harry Potter and Philip Pullman… More...

The first concise guide to children's literature for a decade providing extensive coverage across genres, continents and from the beginnings of the form to Harry Potter and Philip Pullman.; PDF \ Professor Claire Jowitt; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies: general, Ashgate Publishing Ltd<

ISBN: 9780748629848

The first concise guide to children's literature for a decade providing extensive coverage across genres, continents and from the beginnings of the form to Harry Potter and Philip Pullman… More...

The first concise guide to children's literature for a decade providing extensive coverage across genres, continents and from the beginnings of the form to Harry Potter and Philip Pullman.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies: general, Ashgate Publishing Ltd<

2008, ISBN: 9780748629848

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: Edinburgh University Press], Edinburgh University Press, 2008

2008, ISBN: 9780748629848

eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: Edinburgh University Press]