This volume discusses Children’s Literature through the ages from fairy tales and early didactic literature through to the classics of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries and the modern day.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Lucy Pearson
EAN: 9781408266625
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 360 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pearson Education Limited
DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-09-15
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
WIDTH: 145 cm
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Book Themes:
Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary reference works, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general
Lucy Pearson has a PhD in the Children's Publishing of the 1960s and 1970s from Newcastle University, where she has taught a range of children's literature courses and is a research collaborator with Seven Stories, Newcastle University’s Centre for Children’s Literature. Herresearch interests are focused around the role of literature in society from an ideological and practical perspective, particularly in the context of children’s literature. Peter Hunt is a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University and Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University. He an expert in the field of Children’s Literature and the author of An Introduction to Children’s Literature (OPUS, 1994).
