British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900

British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900

Author: Dr Alisa Clapp-Itnyre

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1472407016

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Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. Unlike other literature of the era, hymn books were often compilations of many writers' hymns, presenting the discerning child with a multitude of perspectives on religion and childhood. In addition, the agency afforded children as singers meant that they were actively engaged with the text, music, and pictures of their hymnals. Clapp-Itnyre charts the history of children’s hymn-book publications from early to late nineteenth century, considering major denominational movements, the importance of musical tonality as it affected the popularity of hymns to both adults and children, and children’s reformation of adult society provided by such genres as missionary and temperance hymns. While hymn books appear to distinguish 'the child' from 'the adult', intricate issues of theology and poetry - typically kept within the domain of adulthood - were purposely conveyed to those of younger years and comprehension. Ultimately, Clapp-Itnyre shows how children's hymns complicate our understanding of the child-adult binary traditionally seen to be a hallmark of Victorian society. Intersecting with major aesthetic movements of the period, from the peaking of Victorian hymnody to the Golden Age of Illustration, children’s hymn books require scholarly attention to deepen our understanding of the complex aesthetic network for children and adults. Informed by extensive archival research, British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900 brings this understudied genre of Victorian culture to critical light.


Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History

Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History

Author: Stephanie Olsen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1137484845

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Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History is the first book to innovatively combine the history of childhood and youth with the history of emotions, combining multiple national, colonial, and global perspectives.


Rereading Childhood Books

Rereading Childhood Books

Author: Alison Waller

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1474298281

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Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books. Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.


Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China

Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China

Author: Shih-Wen Sue Chen

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2019-05-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789811360824

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This book examines the development of Chinese children’s literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children’s literature in China and the West was developing rapidly. Drawing from a rich archive of periodicals, novels, tracts, primers, and textbooks, the author analyzes how Chinese children’s literature published by Protestant missionaries and Chinese educators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries presented varying notions of childhood. In this period of dramatic transition from the dynastic Qing empire to the new Republican China, young readers were offered different models of childhood, some of which challenged dominant Confucian ideas of what it meant to be a child. This volume sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of Chinese literary history. Through its contributions to the fields of children’s literature, book history, missionary history, and translation studies, it enhances our understanding of the negotiations between Chinese and Western cultures that shaped the publication and reception of Chinese texts for children.


The Hymns of Philip Doddridge

The Hymns of Philip Doddridge

Author: Philip Doddridge

Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781601781079

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"Philip Doddridge is best known today for his book The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, and perhaps by some for his Family Expositor, which is an extensive commentary on and paraphrase of the New Testament. He also served as principal of an important ministerial academy for non-conforming churches. However, one part of Doddridge's legacy that has been sorely neglected in recent years is his hymns. This book contains 375 of Doddridge's hymns, which provide poetic reflection on Old Testament texts, New Testament texts, and various occasions pertaining to Christians and the church. It also includes a timeline of Doddridge's life, a number of helpful indexes, and various compatible hymn tunes. Table of Contents: Introduction Hymns Founded on Old Testament Texts Hymns Founded on New Testament Texts Hymns for Particular Occasions Table of Hymns by First Line Index Hymns by Context Appendix I: Key Dates in Doddridge's Life Appendix II: Doddridge's Hymns Listed By Metre and Number Appendix III: Hymn Tunes with Meters Common to Doddridge's Hymns Appendix IV: Doddridge's Most Popular Hymns & Assocaited Tunes Appendix V: Twenty Public Domain Hymn Tunes Associated with Doddridge's Hymns Appendix VI: Theological Analysis of Doddridge's Hymns"


The Mighty Child

The Mighty Child

Author: Clémentine Beauvais

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9027269157

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The Mighty Child offers an existentialist approach to the theorization and criticism of children’s literature, nuancing the academic claim that children’s literature, specifically defined as ‘didactic’, alienates childhood from adulthood and disempowers its implied child reader. This volume recentres the theoretical debate around the constructions of time and power which characterize conceptions of childhood and adulthood in children’s literature. The ‘hidden’, didactic adult of children’s literature, this volume argues, is not solely the dictatorial planner of the child’s future, but also a disempowered entity, yearning for unpredictability in the semi-educational, semi-aesthetic endeavor of the children’s book. Leaning on current work in the field of children’s literature theory, on French phenomenological existentialism, and on the philosophy and sociology of childhood, The Mighty Child is addressed to contemporary theorists and critics of children’s literature.


The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction

The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction

Author: J. S. Bratton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-07

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1317365623

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Originally published in 1981. Many of the classics of children’s literature were produced in the Victorian period. But Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River were not the books offered to the majority of children of the time. When writing for children began to be taken seriously, it was not as an art, but as an instrument of moral suasion, practical instruction, Christian propaganda or social control. This book describes and evaluates this body of literature. It places the books in the economic and social contexts of their writing and publication, and considers many of the most prolific writers in detail. It deals with the stories intended to teach the newly-literate poor their social and religious lessons: sensational romances, tales of adventure and military glory, through which the boys were taught the value of self-help and inspired with the ideals of empire; and domestic novels, intended to offer girls a model for the expression of heroism and aspiration within the restricted Victorian woman’s world.


Artful Dodgers

Artful Dodgers

Author: Marah Gubar

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0199756740

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In this account of the golden age of children's fiction, Gubar redefines the phenomenon known as the 'cult of the child'. She looks at the works of Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and J.M. Barrie, contending that they reject the simplistic 'child of nature' paradigm in favour of one based on the child as an artful collaborator.