The children's book business : lessons from the long eighteenth century / / Lissa Paul

• Autore: Paul Lissa
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/92820933
• Soggetto topico: Children's literature, English - Publishing - History - 18th century; Publishers and publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Children - Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Children - Books and reading
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: And in this book there are many houses -- This is the house that Ben built -- These are the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- These are the lessons taught from the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- These are the women who wrote the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- These are (not) the children who read the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- In the end.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Children's Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick's1805 product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the context of Marjorie Moon's 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first century cultural sensibilities are informed by late eighteenth-century attitudes towards children, reading, knowledge, and publishing. The thinking, knowing children of the Enlightenment, she argues, are models for present day technologically-connected, socially-conscious
• Titolo autorizzato: The children's book business
• ISBN: 1-136-84196-2; 1-136-84197-0; 1-283-04137-5; 9786613041371; 0-203-83325-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826079903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Children's literature and culture ; ; 72.