Children's Literature: an Anthology 1801 - 1902
- List Price: $184.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish date: 11/01/2000
Description:
This anthology of nineteenth-century English-language children's literature presents over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. The collection explores both famous and lesser-known works, including pieces by Maria Edgeworth, Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Catherine Parr Traill, Charles Kingsley, Horatio Alger Jr, Susan Coolidge, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ethel Turner, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Rudyard Kipling. Each work is introduced with contextualizing headnotes and organized chronologically, though pieces may also be referenced by theme, genre, author, and country.
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The introduction discusses ways in which the history of children's literature may be and has been read. It uses four key criteria for selecting the texts -- that they are historically significant, representative of their period or country, readable, and comprehensible in extract form.
Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this important anthology will provide general readers and students with an indispensable and above all entertaining account of the development of the form in the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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