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

ISBN-13: 9780415628266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 234 str.

Lissa Paul

Opis

An exploration of how children's literature and publishing has been shaped by the relationship between didactic books that support a perceived social order and 'guerilla' books, those that undermine or question those values and actually encourage negotiation with the real world.

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).