Description |
xvi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs -- Collecting Children's Books: Self-indulgence and Scholarship / Brian Alderson -- Selections from the Accession Diaries of Peter Opie / Clive Hurst -- Children in Early Modern England / Keith Thomas -- A Child Prophet: Martha Hatfield as The Wise Virgin / Nigel Smith -- The Puritans and their Heirs / Gillian Avery -- The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script Was Used to Tame the Beast in Us / Jack Zipes -- 'Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre' or, How History Reaches the Nursery / Giles Barber -- William Godwin as Children's Bookseller / William St. Clair -- Dodgson, Carroll, and the Emancipation of Alice / John Batchelor -- Arthur Hughes as Illustrator for Children / Kate Flint -- Women Writers and Writing for Children: From Sarah Fielding to E. Nesbit / Julia Briggs -- E. Nesbit and The Book of Dragons / W.W. Robinson -- Excessively Impertinent Bunnies: The Subversive Element in Beatrix Potter / Humphrey Carpenter -- The Wind in the Willows: The Vitality of a Classic / Neil Phillip -- Henry James's Children / Barbara Everett -- The Child in Walter de la Mare / John Bayley -- Tolkien's Great War / Hugh Brogan -- William Mayne / Alison Lurie -- Children's Diaries / A.O.J. Cockshut -- Children's Manuscript Magazines in the Bodleian Library / Olivia Bell and Alan Bell |
Analysis |
11030 children's literature in English to 1982 60030 critical studies |
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Children |
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Children Books and reading Great Britain History |
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Children's literature Collectors and collecting |
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Children's literature, English |
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Children's literature, English History and criticism |
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Geschichte |
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Opie, Iona Archibald |
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Opie, Peter |
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Opie, Peter |
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Children's literature in English, to 1982 - Critical studies |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.
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Opie, Peter.
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Book collecting -- Great Britain.
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Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History.
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Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.
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Children's books -- Collectors and collecting.
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Children's literature -- Collectors and collecting.
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Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Children's songs -- History and criticism.
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Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Author |
Avery, Gillian, 1926-2016.
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Briggs, Julia.
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Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.
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Opie, Peter.
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LC no. |
88027005 |
ISBN |
0198122535 (paperback) |
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0198129912 |
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