Children's literature collections : approaches to research
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Children's literature collections : approaches to research
(Critical approaches to children's literature / series editors, Kerry Mallan and Clare Bradford)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children's literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children's literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children's books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan
1. Instruction with Delight: Evidence of Children as Readers in Eighteenth-Century Ireland from the Collections of Dublin City Library and Archive
Maire Kennedy
2. Irish Children's Books 1696-1810: Importation, Exportation and the Beginnings of Irish Children's Literature
Anne Markey
3. The Great Famine in Irish History Textbooks, 1900-1971
Ciara Boylan
4. The Development of the Irish Immigrant Experience in Irish-American Children's Literature 1850-1900
Ciara Gallagher
5. Time and the Child: The Case of Maria Edgeworth's Early Lessons
Aileen Douglas
6. Picking Grandmamma's Pockets
Jarlath Killeen and Marion Durnin
7. From Superstition to Enchantment: The Evolution of T. Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
Ciara Ni Bhroin
8. 'Firing for the Hearth': Storytelling, Landscape and Padraic Colum's The Big Tree of Bunlahy
Padraic Whyte
9. Kildare Place Society and the Beginnings of Formal Education in Ireland
Susan M. Parkes
10. Homespun Books: Creating an Irish National Children's Literature
Julie Anne Stevens<
11. The Puffin Story Books Phenomenon: Popularization, Canonization and Fantasy, 1941-1979
Keith O'Sullivan
12. Picturing Possibilities in Children's Book Collections
Valerie Coghlan
Biographical Notes
Index
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