Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's LiteratureBeschrijving van de ontwikkeling van het hedendaagse Engelstalige kinder- en jeugdboek, in de vorm van een schets van diverse genres, toonaangevende auteurs en afzonderlijke titels. |
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... Victorian classics still stir the hearts and minds of children who have scarcely heard of England and for whom the nineteenth century is utterly remote . This is not to say that all the authors of such good writing necessarily meant to ...
... Victorian classics still stir the hearts and minds of children who have scarcely heard of England and for whom the nineteenth century is utterly remote . This is not to say that all the authors of such good writing necessarily meant to ...
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... Victorian times until the 1960s . In them childhood is still seen as a state separate from adulthood and the ... Victorian man- sion , its garden , and the Victorian child Hatty , who is Mrs. Bartholomew as a child , with whom he plays ...
... Victorian times until the 1960s . In them childhood is still seen as a state separate from adulthood and the ... Victorian man- sion , its garden , and the Victorian child Hatty , who is Mrs. Bartholomew as a child , with whom he plays ...
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... Victorian , adults preferred precept to pleasure , even in books for the very young . The picture book for delight came into its own in the late Victorian era with the works of Kate Greenaway , Randolph Caldecott , and Walter Crane ...
... Victorian , adults preferred precept to pleasure , even in books for the very young . The picture book for delight came into its own in the late Victorian era with the works of Kate Greenaway , Randolph Caldecott , and Walter Crane ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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