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Informationen zum Autor Peter Hunt is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has written 11 books and over 200 articles on children's literature. Among his most recent books are the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (1996), Children's Literature (Blackwell, 2001) and Children's Literature: An Illustrated History (1995). Klappentext This anthology of nineteenth-century English-language children's literature brings together over 120 works, including poems, stories and extracts from novels. The collection explores both famous and lesser-known works from writers as diverse as Maria Edgeworth, Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Catherine Parr Traill, Charles Kingsley, Horatio Alger Jr, Susan Coolidge, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ethel Turner, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Rudyard Kipling. All texts are introduced with contextualizing headnotes and are organized chronologically; they can also be referenced by theme, genre, author and country. Peter Hunt's introduction discusses the ways in which the history of children's literature may be, and has been, read, and sets out four key criteria for selecting the texts: that they are historically significant, representative of their period or country, readable, and comprehensible in extract form. Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this important anthology will provide students and general readers with an indispensable, much needed, and above all, entertaining account of the development of the form in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Zusammenfassung This anthology of 19th-century English-language children's literature brings together over 120 complete works! poems! stories! and extracts from novels. The collection explores both famous and lesser-known works from a diverse range of authors and poets. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849):. From Early Lessons (1801). Ann Taylor (1782-1866), Jane Taylor (1783-1824) and Adelaide O'Keeffe (?1776-1855):. Original Poems for Infant Minds (two volumes: 1804, 1805). 'Morning'. 'Never Play with Fire'. 'My Mother'. 'The Pin'. Rhymes from the Nursery (1806). 'The Star'. 'Poor Children'. 'The Little Husbandman'. William Roscoe (1753-1831):. From The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807). Elizabeth Turner (1775?-1846):. From The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories, in Verse. Adapted to the Ideas of Children From Four to Eight Years Old (1807). 'The Canary'. 'Dangerous Sport'. Barbara (Wreaks) Hofland (1770-1844):. From The History of an Officer's Widow, and Her Young Family (1809). Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851):. From The History of the Fairchild Family or, the Child's Manual: Being a Collection of Stories Calculated to Shew the Importance and Effects of a Religious Education (1818). Alicia Catherine Mant (?1788-1869):. from The Cottage in the Chalk Pit (1822). Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863):. 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (1823). Mary [Botham] Howitt (1799-1888):. From The New Year's Gift, and Juvenile Souvenir (1829). 'The Spider and the Fly'. Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879):. From Poems for Our Children (1830). 'Mary's Lamb'. Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867):. From Home (1835). Jacob Abbott (1803-79):. From A Little Scholar Learning to Talk (1835). From Rollo at Work (1837). James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860):. From A Christmas Gift from Fairyland'. From 'Florella, or the Fairy of the Rainbow' (1838). Catherine Sinclair (1800-64):. From Holiday House (1839). Charlotte Ba...
