| Description |
vi, 265 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / James Holt McGavran, Jr. -- "The raven : a Christmas poem" : Coleridge and the fairy tale controversy / Jeanie Watson -- Wordsworth, fairy tales, and the politics of children's reading / Alan Richardson -- Catechist and visionary : Watts and Wordsworth in "We are seven" and the "Anecdote for fathers" / James Holt McGavran, Jr. -- The idiot boy as healer / Ross Woodman -- Romancing the moral tale : Maria Edgeworth and the problematics of pedagogy / Mitzi Myers -- Mrs. Sherwood and Hesba Stretton : the letter and the spirit of evangelical writing of and for children / Patricia Demers -- Childhood and growth : George MacDonald and William Wordsworth / Roderick McGillis -- A Victorian comfort book : Juliana Ewing's The story of a short life / Judith A. Plotz -- Alice's audiences / Michael Hancher -- Gardens, houses, and nurturant power in The secret garden / Phyllis Bixler -- E. Nesbit's romantic child in modern dress / Anita Moss |
| Summary |
Using a variety of critical approaches, the contributors challenge established dichotomies in children's literature regarding morality and imagination. Rather, as they demonstate, a complex interplay of instruction and delight ran throughout nineteenth-century texts for and about children, including works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Edgeworth, Sherwood, Stretton, Ewing, MacDonald, Carroll, Burnett, and Nesbit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- England
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Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Children -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Author |
McGavran, James Holt
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| LC no. |
90036157 |
| ISBN |
0820312894 |
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9780820312897 |
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0820334871 |
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9780820334875 |
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