Children's Literature
豆瓣
A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Seth Lerer
简介
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. "Children's Literature" is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word.
contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction Toward a New History of Children’s Literature
Chapter One Speak, Child: Children’s Literature in Classical Antiquity
Chapter Two Ingenuity and Authority: Aesop’s Fables and Their Afterlives
Chapter Three Court, Commerce, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood
Chapter Four From Alphabet to Elegy: The Puritan Impact on Children’s Literature
Chapter Five Playthings of the Mind: John Locke and Children’s Literature
Chapter Six Canoes and Cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies
Chapter Seven From Islands to Empires: Storytelling for a Boy’s World
Chapter Eight On beyond Darwin: From Kingsley to Seuss
Chapter Nine Ill-Tempered and Queer: Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern
Chapter Ten Straw into Gold: Fairy-Tale Philology
Chapter Eleven Theaters of Girlhood: Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction
Chapter Twelve Pan in the Garden: The Edwardian Turn in Children’s Literature
Chapter Thirteen Good Feeling: Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children’s Literature
Chapter Fourteen Keeping Things Straight: Style and the Child
Chapter Fifteen Tap Your Pencil on the Paper: Children’s Literature in an Ironic Age
Epilogue Children’s Literature and the History of the Book
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
