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Louise Joy, Eugene Giddens, Zoe Jaques, Louise Joy - The Cambridge History of Children's Literature in English: Volume 1, Inbunden

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The Cambridge History of Children's Literature in English: Volume 1

Origins to 1830

Av Louise Joy, Eugene Giddens, Zoe Jaques, Louise Joy

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Covering the earliest known Anglophone literature for children from its medieval forms, its evolution in the early modern period and towards its emergence in the world of print culture, this volume explores the very foundations of the field through to its establishment as a popular genre for nineteenth-century consumers. In-depth discussion of specific sub-periods is provided in the opening chapters, while the remainder trace both major and more subtle changes in genre and style over time, charting an age of experimentation in form including both successful innovations and frequent failed attempts. The geographical range primarily focuses on the British Isles, but chapters also investigate early developments in children's books from North America and the wider impacts of colonialism and slavery. The shifting currents of didacticism and reading for pleasure across a variety of genres, bolstered by Enlightenment educational ideals, intersect here with new thinking about politics, sex, science, and faith.
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Eugene Giddens is Skinner-Young Professor at Anglia Ruskin University. He is co-author of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass: A Publishing History (2013) and author of Christmas Books for Children (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is general editor of Oxford University Press's The Complete Works of James Shirley (2022). Zoe Jaques is Professor in Children's Literature at the University of Cambridge. She is co-author of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass: A Publishing History (2013) and author of Children's Literature and the Posthuman (2014). She is editor of Oxford University Press's edition of Through the Looking-glass (2022). Louise Joy is Professor of English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (2020) and Literature's Children (2019). She has co-edited Women's Literary Education (2023), The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2018) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).

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