Traces the relationship between children's literature and social change, revealing the extent to which children's books were informed by pedagogical, moral, religious and political agenda. This volume explores the implications of the dual imperatives of instruction and amusement which have underpinned writing for children throughout the centuries.
Traces the relationship between children's literature and social change, revealing the extent to which children's books were informed by pedagogical, ...
This two-volume critical history of French children's literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality and importance of French children's literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne and Saint-Exupery were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.
This two-volume critical history of French children's literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality and importanc...
An examination of a number of English women novelists who portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness as a response to the anomalies of the rapidly changing world of the early twentieth century when opportunities for self-expression and fulfilment were beginning to open up for women but nineteenth-century values and prejudices still widely prevailed. May Sinclair, Radclyffe Hall, Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White and Dorothy Richardson are seen as outspoken and innovative writers often marginalised or ignored by serious criticism.
An examination of a number of English women novelists who portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness as a respo...
This two-volume critical history of French children's literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children's literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and Saint-Exupery were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.
This two-volume critical history of French children's literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importan...
These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children's literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential best-sellers in their own time and beyond. French children's literature is little known in the English-speaking world and, apart from a small number of writers and texts, has been relatively neglected in scholarly studies, despite the prominence of the study of children's literature as a discipline. This...
These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children's literature. They provide both an overview of dev...
