The Making Of Modern Childrens Literature In Britain
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Author |
: Lucy Pearson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2016-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317024767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317024761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain by : Lucy Pearson
Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped ideas of ’good’ children’s literature in Britain, with particular attention to children’s book publishing. Pearson begins with a critical overview of the discourse surrounding children’s literature during the 1960s and 1970s, summarizing the main critical debates in the context of the broader social conversation that took place around children and childhood. The contributions of publishing houses, large and small, to changing ideas about children’s literature become apparent as Pearson explores the careers of two enormously influential children’s editors: Kaye Webb of Puffin Books and Aidan Chambers of Topliner Macmillan. Brilliant as an innovator of highly successful marketing strategies, Webb played a key role in defining what were, in her words, ’the best in children’s books’, while Chambers’ work as an editor and critic illustrates the pioneering nature of children's publishing during this period. Pearson shows that social investment was a central factor in the formation of this golden age, and identifies its legacies in the modern publishing industry, both positive and negative.
Author |
: Lucy Pearson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2016-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317024750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317024753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain by : Lucy Pearson
Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped ideas of ’good’ children’s literature in Britain, with particular attention to children’s book publishing. Pearson begins with a critical overview of the discourse surrounding children’s literature during the 1960s and 1970s, summarizing the main critical debates in the context of the broader social conversation that took place around children and childhood. The contributions of publishing houses, large and small, to changing ideas about children’s literature become apparent as Pearson explores the careers of two enormously influential children’s editors: Kaye Webb of Puffin Books and Aidan Chambers of Topliner Macmillan. Brilliant as an innovator of highly successful marketing strategies, Webb played a key role in defining what were, in her words, ’the best in children’s books’, while Chambers’ work as an editor and critic illustrates the pioneering nature of children's publishing during this period. Pearson shows that social investment was a central factor in the formation of this golden age, and identifies its legacies in the modern publishing industry, both positive and negative.
Author |
: Andrew O'Malley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2004-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135947323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135947325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of the Modern Child by : Andrew O'Malley
This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social reform.
Author |
: Lucy Pearson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1315555816 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781315555812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain by : Lucy Pearson
Author |
: Lucy Pearson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:613559093 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Modern Children's Literature by : Lucy Pearson
Author |
: Rebecca Knuth |
Publisher |
: Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810885165 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810885166 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Children's Literature and British Identity by : Rebecca Knuth
Children's Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation is the story of the development of English children's literature, focusing on how stories inspire children to adhere to the values of society. Such English authors as Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien, and J.K. Rowling have entertained, inspired, confronted social wrongs, and transmitted cultural values--functions previously associated with folklore. Their stories form a new folklore tradition that grounds personal identity, provides social glue, and supports a love of England and English values. This book examines how this tradition came to fruition.
Author |
: A. Gavin |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2012-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230361867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230361862 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Child in British Literature by : A. Gavin
The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood.
Author |
: Lucy Pearson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:613559093 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Modern Children's Literature by : Lucy Pearson
Author |
: Julia Briggs |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 541 |
Release |
: 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351910033 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351910035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Popular Children’s Literature in Britain by : Julia Briggs
The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences. And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or school stories, these essays show how historical and publishing contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes even sustain - literary success.
Author |
: Jackie C. Horne |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2016-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317121695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317121694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature by : Jackie C. Horne
How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Jackie C. Horne argues that this shift can be better understood by looking to the discipline of history. Eighteenth-century humanism believed the purpose of history was to teach private and public virtue by creating idealized readers to emulate. Eighteenth-century children's literature, with its impossibly perfect protagonists (and its equally imperfect villains) echoes history's exemplar goals. Exemplar history, however, came under increasing pressure during the period, and the resulting changes in historiographical practice - an increased need for reader engagement and the widening of history's purview to include the morals, manners, and material lives of everyday people - find their mirror in changes in fiction for children. Horne situates hitherto neglected Robinsonades, historical novels, and fictionalized histories within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the period to trace the ways in which idealized characters gradually gave way to protagonists who fostered readers' sympathetic engagement. Horne's study will be of interest to specialists in children's literature, the history of education, and book history.