Children's Literature by Mo Grenby
The first concise guide to children's literature for a decade providing extensive coverage across genres, continents and from the beginnings of the form to Harry Potter and Philip Pullman.
[Grenby] has devised a cunning circuit of discussion which aims to shed light on his subject through seven genres: fables, poetry, moral and instructive tales, the school story, the family story, fantasy, and the adventure story.. Above all this though is the wisdom of Dr Grenby's Conclusion where he strikes a grand blow at the all-to-frequent belittlement of children's literature among the world in general. Children's Book History Society A confident kaleidoscope of a book... Grenby is a world-class scholar of earlier children's literature--and it shows in the array of less familiar material on view--but that does not stop him taking on the moderns... We can only hope that copies of it will lodge in libraries everywhere to provide a sourcebook for students. -- Peter Hunt, Cardiff University Modern Language Review [Grenby] has devised a cunning circuit of discussion which aims to shed light on his subject through seven genres: fables, poetry, moral and instructive tales, the school story, the family story, fantasy, and the adventure story... Above all this though is the wisdom of Dr Grenby's Conclusion where he strikes a grand blow at the all-to-frequent belittlement of children's literature among the world in general. A confident kaleidoscope of a book... Grenby is a world-class scholar of earlier children's literature--and it shows in the array of less familiar material on view--but that does not stop him taking on the moderns... We can only hope that copies of it will lodge in libraries everywhere to provide a sourcebook for students.
M. O. Grenby is Reader in Children's Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Author of The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution (CUP, 2001) and editor, with Julia Briggs and Denis Butts, of A History of Popular Children's Literature (Ashgate Press, 2004).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748622740 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748622748 |
| Title | Children's Literature |
| Author | Matthew Grenby |
| Series | Edinburgh Critical Guides To Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2008-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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