Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research

ISBN-13: 9781349934065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 261 str.

Keith O'Sullivan;Padraic Whyte

Opis

This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children's literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children's literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children's books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.

Recenzje

"As a collection of scholarship that utilises the resources of one group of libraries, this book has a great deal to offer. The standard of the scholarship is high, and the opportunity to explore collections from one city makes this an interesting and relevant text for scholars not only interested in Irish children's literature and Dublin, but also wider questions around the interconnected nature of books, society and politics." (Jen Aggleton, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 12 (1), 2019)

Spis treści

Contents

 

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Pádraic Whyte and Keith O’Sullivan

1.    Instruction with Delight: Evidence of Children as Readers in Eighteenth-Century Ireland from the Collections of Dublin City Library and Archive

       Máire Kennedy

2.    Irish Children’s Books 1696‒1810: Importation, Exportation and the Beginnings of Irish Children’s Literature

       Anne Markey

3.    The Great Famine in Irish History Textbooks, 1900–1971

       Ciara Boylan

4.    The Development of the Irish Immigrant Experience in Irish-American Children’s Literature 1850‒1900

       Ciara Gallagher

5.    Time and the Child: The Case of Maria Edgeworth’s Early Lessons

       Aileen Douglas

6.    Picking Grandmamma’s Pockets

       Jarlath Killeen and Marion Durnin

7.    From Superstition to Enchantment: The Evolution of T. Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

       Ciara Ní Bhroin

8.    ‘Firing for the Hearth’: Storytelling, Landscape and Padraic Colum’s The Big Tree of Bunlahy

       Pádraic Whyte

9.    Kildare Place Society and the Beginnings of Formal Education in Ireland

       Susan M. Parkes

 

10.  Homespun Books: Creating an Irish National Children’s Literature

       Julie Anne Stevens<

11.  The Puffin Story Books Phenomenon: Popularization, Canonization and Fantasy, 1941‒1979

Keith O’Sullivan

12.  Picturing Possibilities in Children’s Book Collections

Valerie Coghlan

 

Biographical Notes

Index

 

O autorze

Keith O’Sullivan is Lecturer in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. He recently co-edited Children’s Literature and New York City (2014) and Irish Children’s Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (2011). In 2013, he was co-recipient of a major Government of Ireland/Irish Research Council award to establish a National Collection of Children’s Books.

Pádraic Whyte is Assistant Professor of English and a director of the master’s programme in Children's Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Irish Childhoods (2011) and co-editor of Children's Literature and New York City (2014). He was co-recipient of a major Irish Research Council/Government of Ireland award to establish a National Collection of Children’s Book.