Children's Literature
An Anthology 1801 - 1902
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Edited by one of the leading scholars in children'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.
- Provides an entertaining and scholarly view of the development of children's literature in the UK and the USA, with representative pieces from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Includes both famous books and poems, as well as less well-known but fascinating examples.
- Features a bibliography of the best critical and historical secondary sources. <
"Children's literature has a rich tradition and this carefully selected anthology demonstrates its strength and variety very well." Reference Reviews
"Boys' stories, fairy stories, moral and educational tales, nonsense poems, tall stories and fantasy - this new anthology of children's literature covers a full range of nineteenth-century texts including a good selection of unfamiliar works from the United States, Canada and Australia." TLS
ISBN: 9780631210498
Dimensions: 244mm x 173mm x 36mm
Weight: 853g
512 pages