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Children´s Literature: An Anthology 1801 - 1902
Peter Hunt
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Description for Children´s Literature: An Anthology 1801 - 1902
Paperback. Edited by one of the leading scholars in childrena s literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. * Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 496 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBF; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 24. Weight in Grams: 802.
Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels.
- Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels.
- Provides an entertaining and scholarly view of the development of children's literature in the UK and the USA, with representative pieces from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Includes both famous books and poems, as well as less well-known but fascinating examples.
- Features a bibliography of the best critical and historical secondary sources.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Anthologies
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631210498
SKU
V9780631210498
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99-50
About Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has written 11 books and over 200 articles on children's literature. Among his most recent books are the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (1996), Children's Literature (Blackwell, 2001) and Children's Literature: An Illustrated History (1995).
Reviews for Children´s Literature: An Anthology 1801 - 1902
"Children's literature has a rich tradition and this carefully selected anthology demonstrates its strength and variety very well." Reference Reviews "Boys' stories, fairy stories, moral and educational tales, nonsense poems, tall stories and fantasy - this new anthology of children's literature covers a full range of nineteenth-century texts including a good selection of unfamiliar works from the United ... Read more