Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800

Author: Andrea Immel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1135473390

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This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. The essays offer a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature for children as central to evolving early modern concepts of human development and socialization. Among the topics covered are constructs of literacy as revealed by the figure of Goody Two Shoes, notions of pedagogy and academic standards, a reception study of children's reading based on book purchases made by Rugby school boys in the late eighteenth-century, an analysis of the first international best-seller for children, the abbe Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, and the commodification of child performers in Jacobean comedies.

A century of children's books
A century of children's books

Author: Florence V. Barry

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-07-10

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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"A century of children's books" by Florence V. Barry. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature
The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature

Author: George Thomas Kurian

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-04-16

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 0810872838

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The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous in the 1st century as it is in the 21st, Christian literature has had a significant function in history, and teachers and students need to be reminded of this powerful literary legacy. Covering 2,000 years, The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature is the first encyclopedia devoted to Christian writers and books. In addition to an overview of the Christian literature, this two-volume set also includes 40 essays on the principal genres of Christian literature and more than 400 bio-bibliographical essays describing the principal writers and their works. These essays examine the evolution of Christian thought as reflected in the literature of every age. The companion volume also features bibliographies, an index, a timeline of Christian Literature, and a list of the greatest Christian authors. The encyclopedia will appeal not only to scholars and Christian evangelicals, but students and teachers in seminaries and theological schools, as well as to the growing body of Christian readers and bibliophiles.

The Making of the Alice Books
The Making of the Alice Books

Author: Ronald Reichertz

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780773520813

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Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. The Making of the Alice Books includes discussions of the didactic and nursery rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers

Author: Ann R. Hawkins

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1317041747

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The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.

Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic
Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic

Author: Mary V. Jackson

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780803275706

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Looks at the social, political, religious, and aesthetic forces that shaped the form and content of early children's books