Popular children's literature in Britain
| Titel: | Popular children's literature in Britain / ed. by Julia Briggs ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 342 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9781840142426 ; 9781840142426 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| Lokale Klassifikation: | Sekundärliteratur |
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- General introduction
- Part 1
- Old Tales Retold
- Introduction
- Before children's literature: children, chapbooks and popular culture in early modern Britain
- Robin Hood in boys' weeklies to 1914
- From Madame d'Aulnoy to Mother Bunch: popularity and the fairy tale
- From chapbooks to pantomime
- Part 2
- Forgotten Favourites
- Introduction
- Finding and sustaining a popular appeal: the case of Barbara Hofland
- Telling the other side: Hesba Stretton's 'outcast' stories
- Exploiting a formula: the adventure stories of G.A. Henty (1832-1902)
- Angela Brazil and the making of the girls' school story
- Part 3
- Popular Instruction, Popularity Imposed
- Introduction
- Rewarding reads? Giving, receiving and resisting evangelical reward and prize books
- Tracts, classic and brands: science for children in the 19th century
- Popular education and big money: Mee, Hammerton and Northcliffe
- Part 4
- The Famous Three - Blyton, Dahl and Rowling
- Introduction
- From Froebel teacher to English Disney: the phenomenal success of Enid Blyton
- 'And children swarmed to him like settlers
- He became a land'
- The outrageous success of Roald Dahl
- 'The most popular ever': the launching of Harry Potter
- The brand, the intertext and the reader: reading desires in the 'Harry Potter' series
- Further reading
- Index