The Children's Book Business : Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780415937894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 234 str.

Lissa Paul

Opis

The Children's Book Business is an exploration of how children's literature and children's literature publishing has been shaped by the relationship between what the author calls "status quo" books - didactic ones that support a perceived social order and often deny truths of the real, adult world - and what she calls "guerilla" books - those that undermine or question the values of the social order and actually encourage negotiation with the real world, albeit in a coded, literary way.

The book explains how testing, which is more pervasive than ever, champions basic skills over appreciation of literary merit, and creates a great demand for suitably neutral (bland, inoffensive) texts that are anything but worthwhile in terms of the kind of intellectual and emotional pleasure that provides the motivation for being literate.

Spis treści

Introduction: And in this Book There Are Many Houses.  Chapter 1: This is the House that Ben Built.  Chapter 2: These are the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built.  Chapter 3: These are the Lessons Taught from the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built.  Chapter 4: These are the Women Who Wrote the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built.  Chapter 5: These are (Not) the Children who Read the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built.  Chapter 6: In the End

O autorze

Lissa Paul, a professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University in Canada, publishes and speaks internationally. She is the author of Reading Otherways (Thimble 1998), an Associate General Editor of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (Norton 2005), and co-editor, with Phil Nel, of Keywords for Children’s Literature (New York UP 2011) . She is currently working on a biography of Eliza Fenwick (1767-1840).