| Description |
1 online resource (357 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 General Introduction; PART I OLD TALES RETOLD; Introduction; 2 Before Children's Literature: Children, Chapbooks and Popular Culture in Early Modern Britain; 3 Robin Hood in Boys' Weeklies to 1914; 4 From Madame d'Aulnoy to Mother Bunch: Popularity and the Fairy Tale; 5 From Chapbooks to Pantomime; PART II FORGOTTEN FAVOURITES; Introduction; 6 Finding and Sustaining a Popular Appeal: The Case of Barbara Hofland |
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7 Telling the Other Side: Hesba Stretton's 'Outcast' Stories8 Exploiting a Formula: The Adventure Stories of G.A. Henty (1832-1902); 9 Angela Brazil and the Making of the Girls' School Story; PART III POPULAR INSTRUCTION, POPULARITY IMPOSED; Introduction; 10 Rewarding Reads? Giving, Receiving and Resisting Evangelical Reward and Prize Books; 11 Tracts, Classics and Brands: Science for Children in the Nineteenth Century; 12 Popular Education and Big Money: Mee, Hammerton and Northcliffe; PART IV THE FAMOUS THREE: BLYTON, DAHL AND ROWLING; Introduction |
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13 From Froebel Teacher to English Disney: The Phenomenal Success of Enid Blyton14 'And Children Swarmed to Him Like Settlers. He Became a Land.' The Outrageous Success of Roald Dahl; 15 'Most Popular Ever': The Launching of Harry Potter; 16 The Brand, the Intertext and the Reader: Reading Desires in the 'Harry Potter' Series; Further Reading; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Butts, Dennis
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Grenby, M. O
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Grenby, Matthew
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| ISBN |
9781351910040 |
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1351910043 |
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