Children's Literature of the English Renaissance
Author: Warren W. Wooden
Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 216
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Author: Warren W. Wooden
Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 216
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0813165059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarren 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.
Author: Katharine Capshaw Smith
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006-08-16
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780253218889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book explores the period's vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation."--Jacket.
Author: Michael Witmore
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0801463556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren had surprisingly central roles in many of the public performances of the English Renaissance, whether in entertainments—civic pageants, children's theaters, Shakespearean drama—or in more grim religious and legal settings, as when children were "possessed by demons" or testified as witnesses in witchcraft trials. Taken together, such spectacles made repeated connections between child performers as children and the mimetic powers of fiction in general. In Pretty Creatures, Michael Witmore examines the ways in which children, with their proverbial capacity for spontaneous imitation and their imaginative absorption, came to exemplify the virtues and powers of fiction during this era. As much concerned with Renaissance poetics as with children's roles in public spectacles of the period, Pretty Creatures attempts to bring the antics of children—and the rich commentary these antics provoked—into the mainstream of Renaissance studies, performance studies, and studies of reformation culture in England. As such, it represents an alternative history of the concept of mimesis in the period, one that is built from the ground up through reflections on the actual performances of what was arguably nature's greatest mimic: the child.
Author: Barbara L. Estrin
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780838750759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lost child plot, which appears in the work of virtually every major author of the English Renaissance, is examined in this study of a wide variety of the literature of that period.
Author: C. Levin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-10-13
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0230615732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most profound beliefs of people of the time.
Author: Carrie Hintz
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1460406699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading Children’s Literature offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children’s literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, it is a compact core text that introduces students to the historical contexts, genres, and issues of children’s literature. A beautifully designed and illustrated supplement to individual literary works assigned, it also provides apparatus that makes it a complete resource for working with children’s literature during and after the course. The second edition includes a new chapter on children’s literature and popular culture (including film, television, and merchandising) and has been updated throughout to reflect recent scholarship and new offerings in children’s media.
Author: Edel Lamb
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 3319703595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together the fields of childhood studies, early modern literature and the history of reading. Analysing literary representations of children as readers in a range of genres (including ABCs, prayer books, religious narratives, romance, anthologies, school books, drama, translations and autobiography) alongside evidence of the reading experiences of those defined as children in the period, it explores the production of different categories of child readers. Focusing on the ‘good child’ reader, the youth as consumer, ways of reading as a boy and as a girl, and the retrospective recollection of childhood reading, it sheds new light on the ways in which childhood and reading were understood and experienced in the period.
Author: Nicholas Orme
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780300097542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.
Author: Julia Mickenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-11-29
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 0199938555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemarkably well researched, the essays consider a wide range of texts - from the U.S., Britain and Canada - and take a variety fo theoretical approaches, including formalism and Marxism and those related to psychology, postcolonialism, reception, feminism, queer studies, and performance studies ... This collection pushes boundaries of genre, notions of childhood ... Choice. Back cover of book.