Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
- Author / Editor
- Lerer,Seth.
Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
- Published
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- ix, 385 pp. 23 b&w illus.
- Description
- Studies the currents and cross-currents of pedagogy, moral didacticism, and entertainment in children's literature, exploring how trends in reading and interpretation recur as the subject matter of the stories and help to define their historical legacy. Focuses on literature written in English but explores international influences and premodern legacies in the classics, medieval traditions, travelogues, religious writing,f airy stories, illustration and printing history, literary prizes, canon formation, style, and more. Comments on Astr, NPT, and ClT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale