1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004198419707536

Autore

Biblioteca nazionale centrale <Firenze>

Titolo

Il Fondo Tordi della Biblioteca nazionale di Firenze : catalogo delle appendici / [a cura di] Alan Bullock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : L. S. Olschki, 1991

ISBN

8822238893

Descrizione fisica

177 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Studi / Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere La Colombaria ; 117

Altri autori (Persone)

Bullock, Alan <1938- >

Disciplina

018.13

Soggetti

Firenze - Biblioteca nazionale centrale - Fondo Tordi - Cataloghi

Tordi, Domenico - Lettere e carteggi - Cataloghi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154983303321

Titolo

Popular children's literature in Britain / / edited by Julia Briggs [died], Dennis Butts, M.O. Grenby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-91003-5

1-138-27671-5

1-315-24643-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations, tables

Classificazione

18.05

Altri autori (Persone)

BriggsJulia

ButtsDennis <1932->

GrenbyM. O <1970-> (Matthew Orville)

Disciplina

820.9/9282

Soggetti

Children's literature, English - History and criticism

Children - Books and reading - Great Britain

Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism

Literature and society - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Firs tpublished 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Old tales retold -- pt. 2. Forgotten favourites -- pt. 3. Popular instruction, popularity imposed -- pt. 4. The famous three : Blyton, Dahl and Rowling.

Sommario/riassunto

The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences. And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or school stories, these essays show how historical and



publishing contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes even sustain - literary success.