Children's Literature
(Sprache: Englisch)
This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children s literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000.
The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and...
The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and...
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This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children s literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000.
The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and entertaining subject, and explores the ways in which it can be approached.
The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and entertaining subject, and explores the ways in which it can be approached.
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This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children s literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000.The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and entertaining subject, and explores the ways in which it can be approached.
The Guide includes:
Detailed critical surveys of the work of forty major authors, from Mrs Sherwood to J. K. Rowling, Louisa May Alcott to Dr Seuss, Mary Grant Bruce to Margaret Mahy, and Quentin Blake to Ted Hughes.
Studies of over twenty key texts, placing each in its historical and generic context: books include the pioneering A Little Pretty Pocket Book (1744), classics such as Tom Brown s Schooldays, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Seven Little Australians, modern classics from The Hobbit and C. S. Lewis s Narnia books, to Charlotte s Web and Harriet the Spy, as well as influential translations, such as Emil and the Detectives.
Discussion of important issues, themes and genres, including censorship, postcolonialism, fantasy, gender, illustration, and literacy.
All of the entries are supported by up-to-date critical bibliographies.
Children s Literature offers a helpful and inspiring foundation for further study, and will be an essential resource for students from disciplines as varied as literature, history, education, cultural studies, and the general reader.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Children's Literature “
Contents.Acknowledgements.
Chronology.
Introduction.
About Children s Literature and this Book.
Matters of Selection.
Matters of Theory and Definition.
Matters of History.
Constructing History.
Tone and address.
Content.
Gender, Politics and Ideology.
Rethinking History.
How to Use This Book.
Note on the Bibliographies.
Authors.
Janet Ahlberg (1944-1997) and Allan Ahlberg (1938-).
Louisa May Alcott (1832-88).
Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979).
Quentin Blake (1932-).
Judy Blume (1938-).
Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968).
Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958).
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924).
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-98).
Robert Cormier (1925-).
Richmal Crompton [Lamburn] (1890-1969).
Roald Dahl (1916-1990).
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991).
Anne Fine (1947-).
Alan Garner (1934-).
Virginia [Esther] Hamilton (1936-).
G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty (1832-1902).
Russell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-).
Ted Hughes (1930-1998).
[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
E[laine] L[obl] Konigsburg (1930-).
Patricia MacLachlan (1938-).
Margaret Many (1936-).
Jan [Janet Marjorie] Mark (1943-).
William Mayne (1928-).
A[lan] A[lexander] Milne (1882-1956).
E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924).
[Helen] Beatrix Potter (1866-1943).
Terry Pratchett (1948-).
Philip Pullman (1946-).
Arthur Ransome (1884-1967).
Michael Rosen (1946-).
J[oanne] K. Rowling.
Maurice [Bernard] Sendak (1928-).
Mary Martha [Butt] Sherwood (1775-1851).
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94).
Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992).
Patricia Wrightson (1921-).
Key Texts.
L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables (1908).
Richard Jefferies (1848-87), Wood Magic (1881) and Bevis (1882).
Anna Sewell (1820-78), Black Beauty (1877).
Mary Norton (1903-1992), The Borrowers (1952), The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft
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(1961), The Borrowers Avenged (1982).
E[lwyn] B[rooks] White (1899-1985), Charlotte s Web (1952).
Susan [Mary] Cooper (1935),The Dark is Rising sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone (1965), The Dark is Rising (1973), Greenwitch (1974), The Grey King (1975), Silver on the Tree (1977).
Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Young Children (1715).
Ursula K[roeber]. Le Guin (1929-): The Earthsea Quartet : A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1972), The Farthest Shore (1973), Tehanu (1990).
Louise Fitzhugh (1928-74), Harriet the Spy (1964).
J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien (1892-1973), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937).
Imported Classics.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) The Little House series: Little House in the Big Woods (USA 1932/UK 1956), Farmer Boy (1933/1965), Little House on the Prairie (1935/1957), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937/1958), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939/1961), The Long Winter (1940/1962), These Happy Golden Years (1943/1964), The First Four Years (1971/1973).
John Newbery (1713-67), A Little Pretty Pocket Book (1744).
Louisa May Alcott (1832-88), Little Women (1868) and Good Wives (1869).
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), The Magic Pudding (1918).
P[amela] L[yndon] Travers (1906-1996), Mary Poppins (1934).
C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963): Narnia Series. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), Prince Caspian (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and his Boy (1954), The Magician s Nephew (1955) and The Last Battle (1956).
J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie (1860-1937) Peter Pan (1904...).
Eleanor H[odgman] Porter (1868-1920), Pollyanna (1913).
Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911).
Ethel S[ybil] Turner (1872-1958) Seven Little Australians (1894).
Alan Garner (1934-), The Stone Book Quartet. The Stone Book (1976), Granny Reardun (1977), The Aimer Gate (1978), Tom Fobble s Day (1977).
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E[lwyn] B[rooks] White (1899-1985), Charlotte s Web (1952).
Susan [Mary] Cooper (1935),The Dark is Rising sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone (1965), The Dark is Rising (1973), Greenwitch (1974), The Grey King (1975), Silver on the Tree (1977).
Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Young Children (1715).
Ursula K[roeber]. Le Guin (1929-): The Earthsea Quartet : A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1972), The Farthest Shore (1973), Tehanu (1990).
Louise Fitzhugh (1928-74), Harriet the Spy (1964).
J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien (1892-1973), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937).
Imported Classics.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) The Little House series: Little House in the Big Woods (USA 1932/UK 1956), Farmer Boy (1933/1965), Little House on the Prairie (1935/1957), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937/1958), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939/1961), The Long Winter (1940/1962), These Happy Golden Years (1943/1964), The First Four Years (1971/1973).
John Newbery (1713-67), A Little Pretty Pocket Book (1744).
Louisa May Alcott (1832-88), Little Women (1868) and Good Wives (1869).
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), The Magic Pudding (1918).
P[amela] L[yndon] Travers (1906-1996), Mary Poppins (1934).
C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963): Narnia Series. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), Prince Caspian (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and his Boy (1954), The Magician s Nephew (1955) and The Last Battle (1956).
J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie (1860-1937) Peter Pan (1904...).
Eleanor H[odgman] Porter (1868-1920), Pollyanna (1913).
Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911).
Ethel S[ybil] Turner (1872-1958) Seven Little Australians (1894).
Alan Garner (1934-), The Stone Book Quartet. The Stone Book (1976), Granny Reardun (1977), The Aimer Gate (1978), Tom Fobble s Day (1977).
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Autoren-Porträt von Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is Professor of English at Cardiff University. He has written eleven books and over 200 articles on children s literature. Among his most recent books are the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children s Literature (1996), Children s Literature: An Illustrated History (1995) and Children s Literature: An Anthology 1801-1902 (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Hunt
- 2000, 360 Seiten, Maße: 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0631211411
- ISBN-13: 9780631211419
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"A constantly agile, challenging, attractively informal book that will provoke the specialists and enlighten all who share the joy of the subject ." Books for Keeps
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