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Autore: | Paul Lissa |
Titolo: | The children's book business [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from the long eighteenth century / / Lissa Paul |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
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.: | 9910791853603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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