A critical history of French children's literature
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A critical history of French children's literature
（Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor）
Routledge, c2008
- v. 1
- v. 2
Available at 11 libraries
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Library, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts田
v. 1Z950.2||B9492||1WA;0782032585,
v. 2Z950.2||B9492||2WA;0782032593
Note
Bibliography: v. 1, p. 279-288; v. 2, p. 343-352
Includes index in each vols
Vol. 1. 1600-1830 -- v. 2. 1830-present
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9780415973267
Description
These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children's literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential best-sellers in their own time and beyond. French children's literature is little known in the English-speaking world and, apart from a small number of writers and texts, has been relatively neglected in scholarly studies, despite the prominence of the study of children's literature as a discipline. This project is groundbreaking in its coverage of a wide range of genres, tracing the evolution of children's books in France from early courtesy books, fables and fairy tales, to eighteenth-century moral tales and educational drama, nineteenth-century novels of domestic realism and adventure stories and contemporary detective fiction and fantasy novels.
The discussion traces the relationship between children's literature and social change, revealing the extent to which children's books were informed by pedagogical, moral, religious and political agenda and explores the implications of the dual imperatives of instruction and amusement which have underpinned writing for young readers throughout the centuries.
Table of Contents
Contents. Acknowledgments. Series Editor's Forward. Introduction. 1: Children as Readers in the Seventeenth Century 2: Fables and Fairy Tales 3: Instruction and Amusement: A New Literature for Children 4: Changing Narratives: The Moral and Didactic Novel 5: L'Ami des Enfans and Performative Morality 6: Children of the Revolution (and Afterwards) 7: The End of the Beginning. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography
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v. 2 ISBN 9780415973274
Description
This two-volume critical history of French children's literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children's literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and Saint-Exupery were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments. Series Editor's Forward. Introduction. 1. Old Friends and Children's Books on the Move 2. The Novel of Domestic Realism, or the Family Novel 3. Hetzel, Jules Verne and the Adventure of Science 4. Signs of the Times 5. The Early Twentieth Century 6. The Role of Images 7. The Renaissance of the Imagination 8. A literature for Children. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography
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