Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Richardson, Selma K., Ed

Titel

Research About Nineteenth-Century Children and Books. Portrait Studies

Ort / Verlag

Publications Office, Graduate School of Library Science

Erscheinungsjahr

1980

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

ERIC

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This collection of papers delivered at a symposium held in April 1979 explores the relationship between children and literature in the nineteenth century. The following titles are included: "The Researcher's Craft: Designs and Implements," and "Children's Books and Social History," by Gillian Avery; "Reflections on Histories of Childhood," by Walter L. Arnstein; "The Maxine Waldron Collection of Children's Books and Paper Toys," by Margaret N. Coughlan; "Lydia Maria Child and the Juvenile Miscellany," by Carolyn L. Karcher; "Idealization of the Child and Childhood in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy and Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer," by Phyllis Bixler; "The Children of Sophie May," by Carol Doll; "First Appearances: Literature in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals for Children," by Harriett R. Christy; and "Poetry for Children of Two Centuries," by John Mackay Shaw. The proceedings of the conference are summarized in an introduction by the editor. (FM)