Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter
Record details
- ISBN: 9780226473000 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780226473017 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0226473007 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0226473015 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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ix, 385 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | List of illustrations -- Introduction : Toward a new history of children's literature -- 1. Speak, child : children's literature in classical antiquity -- 2. Ingenuity and authority : Aesop's fables and their afterlives -- 3. Court, commerce, and cloister : the literatures of medieval childhood -- 4. From alphabet to elegy : the Puritan impact on children's literature -- 5. Playthings of the mind : John Locke and children's literature -- 6. Canoes and cannibals : Robinson Crusoe and its legacies -- 7. From islands to empires : storytelling for a boy's world -- 8. On beyond Darwin : from Kingsley to Seuss -- |
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Subject: | Children's literature -- History and criticism Curriculum Lab |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | PN 1009 A1 L44 2008 (Text)
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B001319847 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |