Children's literature

著者

    • Grenby, Matthew O.

書誌事項

Children's literature

M.O. Grenby

(Edinburgh critical guides to literature)

Edinburgh University Press, c2008

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British and North American children's literature from its seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Each chapter focuses on one of the main genres of children's literature: fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, the school story, and poetry. M. O. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over three hundred years as well as asking why most children's books, even today, continue to fall into one or other of these generic categories. Why, for instance, has fantasy been so appealing to both Victorian and twenty-first-century children? Are the religious and moral stories written in the eighteenth century really so different from the teenage problem novels of today? The book answers questions like these with a combination of detailed analysis of particular key texts and a broad survey of hundreds of children's books, both famous and forgotten. Key Features * The first concise history of children's literature to be published for more than a decade * Extensive coverage of children's literature, across genres, continents and from the beginnings of the form to Harry Potter and Philip Pullman * Links close reading of texts with the historical and cultural context of their production and reception

目次

  • Acknowledgements
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Fables
  • Definitions, early history and audience
  • The evolution of Aesop
  • Humanitarian and pantheistic fables
  • Dystopian and environmentalist fables
  • Political fables
  • Fables and race
  • Fables of personal fulfilment
  • Chapter 2: Poetry
  • Definitions and early history
  • Devotional, vernacular and cautionary verse
  • Nonsense and narrative verse
  • Sentimental cynicism
  • 'Urchin verse'
  • Chapter 3: Moral and Instructive Tales
  • Realism and didacticism
  • The eighteenth-century moral tale
  • The modern moral tale
  • The moral tale in the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 4: The School Story
  • Definitions, national tradition and early history
  • The individual and the community
  • The school ethos
  • The politics of school: class and empire
  • The modern school story: challenging the conventions
  • Chapter 5: The Family Story
  • Definitions
  • The instructive family
  • The imperialist family
  • The confining family
  • The political family
  • Non-traditional families
  • The vertical family
  • Chapter 6: Fantasy
  • Fantasy, reality and the interface between them
  • Fantasy, history, ideology
  • Fantasy and the politics of gender
  • Fantasy, freedom, order and empowerment
  • Fantasy, didacticism and the search for selfhood
  • Chapter 7: The Adventure Story
  • Definitions and blurred boundaries
  • The fantasy of empowerment
  • Adventure and Morality
  • Authenticity and Exoticism
  • The politics of adventure: gender and empire
  • Student Resources
  • Glossary
  • Further Reading
  • Index.

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