Children's Literature of the English Renaissance
Children's Literature of the English Renaissance

Author: Warren W. Wooden

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2015-01-13

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0813165059

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Warren W. Wooden's pioneering studies of early examples of children's literature throw new light on many accepted works of the English Renaissance period. In consequence, they appear more complex, significant, and successful than hitherto realized. In these nine essays, Wooden traces the roots of English children's literature in the Renaissance beginning with the first printed books of Caxton and ranging through the work of John Bunyan. Wooden examines a number of works and authors from this period of two centuries -- some from the standard canon, others obscure or neglected -- while addressing questions about the early development of children's literature.

Children in the House
Children in the House

Author: Karin Lee Fishbeck Calvert

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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By examining the objects used for childrearing over the course of 300 years, Calvert (American history, U. of Pennsylvania) maps the changes in the material culture of parenting and uncovers the history of childhood in America. Includes 26 bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature
Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

Author: Shelby Wolf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 1136913572

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This multidisciplinary handbook pulls together in one volume the research on children's and young adult literature which is currently scattered across three intersecting disciplines: education, English, and library and information science.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

Author: George Watson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1974-08-29

Total Pages: 1322

ISBN-13: 9780521200042

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

A Reference Guide for English Studies
A Reference Guide for English Studies

Author: Michael J. Marcuse

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 872

ISBN-13: 9780520051614

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This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.

Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

Author: Emer O'Sullivan

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0810874962

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Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.