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Author:   Gillian Avery ,  Julia Briggs ,  Iona Opie
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.721kg
ISBN:  

9780198129912

ISBN 10:   0198129912
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   01 October 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Collecting children's books - self-indulgence and scholarship, Brian Alderson; selections from the accession diaries of Peter Opie, Clive Hurst; children in early modern England, Keith Thomas; a child prophet - Martha Hatfield as ""The Wise Virgin"", Nigel Smith; the Puritans and their heirs, Gillian Avery; the origins of the early fairy tale for children or how script was used to tame the beast in us, Jack Zipes; ""Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre"" or how history reaches the nursery, Giles Barber; William Godwin as children's bookseller, William St Clair; Dodgson, Carroll and the emancipation of Alice, John Batchelor; Arthur Hughes as illustrator for children, Kate Flint; women writers and writing for children - from Sarah Fielding to E.Nesbit, Julia Briggs; E.Nesbit and ""The Book of Dragons"", Wallace Robson; excessively impertinent bunnies - the subversive element in Beatrix Potter, Humphrey Carpenter; ""The Wind in the Willows"" - the vitality of a classic, Neil Philip; Henry James' children, Barbara Everett; the child in Walter de la Mare, John Bayley; Tolkien's great war, Hugh Brogan; William Mayne, Alison Lurie; children's diaries, A.O.J.Cockshut; children's manuscript magazines in the Bodleian Library, Olivia and Alan Bell."

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