| The Widening World of Children's Literature 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Ang, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312226683 ISBN-13: 9780312226688 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: This book looks at the changing shape of children's literature in English from the 18th to the 20th century. Susan Ang examines the dialectic between "enclosure" and "exposure," control and freedom of both fictional child and child reader, and how the balance of these forces has altered over time. The author also looks at the representation of the child in the English novel from the 1830s to the 1860s--the period preceding the publication of "Alice in Wonderland," the first major work of literature for children. Writers as well-known as Lewis Carroll, Louisa M. Alcott, Rudyard Kipling and Charlotte Brontë are examined, as are works which have been previously neglected. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| LCCN: 99-16692 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.73" W x 8.96" (0.98 lbs) 203 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book looks at the changing shape of children's literature in English from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular it examines the dialect between 'enclosure' and 'exposure', control and freedom of both fictional child and child reader, how the balance of these forces has altered over time, and the possible reasons for these changes. It also looks at the representation of the child in the English novel from the 1830s to the 1860s - the period preceding the publication of Alice in Wonderland, the first major work of literature for children - and the influence of such representation in later children's books. Writers as well known as Lewis Carroll, Louisa M. Alcott, Rudyard Kipling and Charlotte Bront are examined in the course of this work, but this study also considers works which have been (unfairly) neglected till now and which deserve to be better known; this list includes the Marlow series by Antonia Forest, Jane Gardam's Bilgewater and Henry Handel Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom . |
