Children's Literature in the Long 19th Century

ISBN-13: 9780367356736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 110 str.

Catherine Butler; Ann Alston

Opis

In this collection the multidimensional story of children’s literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, questioned, and, in some respects, rewritten. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The British Reception of Genlis’s Adèle et Théodore, Preceptive Fiction and the Professionalization of Handmade Literacies  2. The Metropolis and Female Citizenship in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories from Real Life  3. Satirical Conservatism in Catherine Ann Dorset’s Papillonades  4. "How One Subject Springs Out of Another!": The Strickland Family and Early Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature  5. "Marietza": An Example of Catherine Maria Sedgwick’S Depiction of the "Other" in Her Books for Children  6. American Woman: Feminine Speech and the Reformation of National Identity through Female Community in Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl  7. The Empire Girl Goes to War: Bessie Marchant’s World War I Fiction