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Katherine Wakely-Mulroney - The Origins of Children's Literature, 1658-1834, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

The Origins of Children's Literature, 1658-1834

Av Katherine Wakely-Mulroney

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Drawing on a diverse range of materials from the long Eighteenth Century, this study provides a new account of the origins of children's literature. During this vibrant period, works as varied as encyclopaedias, nursery rhymes, catechisms, and moral tales emerged from the desire to convey profound concepts to audiences in the earliest stages of understanding, supplying multum in parvo, 'much in little'. Changing conceptions of children's bodies, lifespans, social scale, and mental capacity resulted in works that strove to be little in remarkably different ways. Whether facilitating readers' paths towards adulthood or an early grave, supplying them with couplets, abridgements, or tales in words of one syllable, children's literature has from its beginnings treated simplicity as the entryway to life's biggest questions. The belief that young people deserve access to complex ideas remains at the heart of children's publishing today, reflecting the significance of early children's literature to modern childhood.
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Katherine Wakely-Mulroney is an Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century children's literature and childhood. She is the co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2018) and judge for The Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry.

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'Deeply researched and beautifully written, The Origins of Children's Literature, 1658–1834 practices the eighteenth-century principle of instructing through delight. Detailing an original genealogy of children's literature that traces a dynamic intimacy between literary form and epistemology, this book argues elegantly that childhood is as much a literary phenomenon as a sociological or psychological one.' Eugenia Zuroski, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

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