Children''s Literature - An Anthology 1801 - 1902

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 Edited by one of the leading scholars in childrena s literature studies! this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works! poems! stories! and extracts from novels. * Includes over 120 complete works! poems! stories and extracts from novels. Inhaltsverzeichnis 8265999 ...

Product details

• Authors: Hunat, Hunt, P Hunt, Peter Hunt, Peter (University of Wales) Hunt
• Assisted by: Peter Hunt (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2000
• EAN: 9780631210498
• ISBN: 978-0-631-21049-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Blackwell Anthologies; Blackwell Anthologies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Anthologies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general