LEADER 03666nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910813701903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08990-0 010 $a9786612089909 010 $a0-226-47302-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226473024 035 $a(CKB)1000000000747389 035 $a(EBL)432257 035 $a(OCoLC)572863246 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000121180 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147890 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121180 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10093574 035 $a(PQKB)11363667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432257 035 $a(DE-B1597)523749 035 $a(OCoLC)1058544309 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226473024 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432257 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10294867 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208990 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000747389 100 $a20071113d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChildren's literature $ea reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter /$fSeth Lerer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (396 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-47300-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tIntroduction. Toward a New History of Children's Literature -- $t1. Speak , Child. Children's Literature in Classical Antiquity -- $t2. Ingenuity and Authority. Aesop's Fables and Their Afterlives -- $t3. Court, Commerce, and Cloister. The Literatures of Medieval Childhood -- $t4. From Alphabet to Elegy. The Puritan Impact on Children's Literature -- $t5. Playthings of the Mind. John Locke and Children's Literature -- $t6. Canoes and Cannibals. Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies -- $t7. From Islands to Empires. Storytelling for a Boy's World -- $t8. On beyond Darwin. From Kingsley to Seuss -- $t9. Ill-Tempered and Queer. Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern -- $t10. Straw into Gold. Fairy-Tale Philology -- $t11. Theaters of Girlhood. Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction -- $t12. Pan in the Garden. The Edwardian Turn in Children's Literature -- $t13. Good Feeling. Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children's Literature -- $t14. Keeping Things Straight. Style and the Child -- $t15. Tap Your Pencil on the Paper. Children's Literature in an Ironic Age -- $tEpilogue. Children's Literature and the History of the Book -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aEver since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated 606 $aChildren's literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aChildren's literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.89282 686 $aEC 8300$qBVB$2rvk 700 $aLerer$b Seth$f1955-$01621436 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813701903321 996 $aChildren's literature$94005505 997 $aUNINA