Written for Children
An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 1996
399 pages
978-1-4617-3104-7 (ISBN)
Description
This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Written for Children traces the development of children's literature from its origins through the beginnings of the multimedia revolution. In effortless and entertaining style, Townsend, a world-renowned authority in the field, examines the changing attitudes toward children and their literature and analyzes the various strands that make up this important field. While examining many well-known American classics, Townsend also looks at British works that American audiences may have overlooked. With illustrations and bibliography.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4617-3104-7 (9781461731047)
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Book
05/1996
Scarecrow Press
€104.40
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Person
John Rowe Townsend has published more than twenty books for children and young people and has lectured extensively on children's literature in the United States, Britain, Australia, and Japan.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication and Acknowledgment
- Foreword
- Part One: Before 1840
- 1: The Beginnings
- 2: Mr Locke and Mr Newbery
- 3: Rousseau and the Lady Writers
- 4: Fact and Fancy
- Part Two: 1840-1915
- 5: Nineteenth-Century Adventures
- 6: Domestic Dramas
- 7: Imagination Rehabilitated
- 8: The Never-Lands
- 9: The World of School
- 10: Articulate Animals
- 11: Writers in Rhyme
- 12: Pictures that Tell a Story
- Part Three: 1915-1945
- 13: Fantasy Between the Wars
- 14: History and Brass Tacks
- 15: Craftsmen in Two Media
- Part Four: From 1945
- 16: The Turbulent Years
- 17: Britons and Their Past
- 18: After "Johnny Tremain
- 19: Re-Expanding the Far Horizons
- 20: Modern Fantasy (i): Just Like Us
- 21: Modern Fantasy (ii): Imagined Lands
- 22: Modern Fantasy (iii): On the Margin
- 23: Realism, British-Style
- 24: Realism, American-Style
- 25: How Young is an Adult?
- 26: Around the World
- 27: Virtuosity in Verse
- 28: Picture Books in Bloom: USA
- 29: Picture Books in Bloom: Britain
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author
