{"product_id":"childrens-literature-an-anthology-1801-1902-paperback","title":"Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801 - 1902 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an entertaining and scholarly view of the development of children's literature in the UK and the USA, with representative pieces from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes both famous books and poems, as well as less well-known but fascinating examples.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a bibliography of the best critical and historical secondary sources.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology of nineteenth-century English-language children's literature brings together over 120 works, including poems, stories and extracts from novels. The collection explores both famous and lesser-known works from writers as diverse as Maria Edgeworth, Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Catherine Parr Traill, Charles Kingsley, Horatio Alger Jr, Susan Coolidge, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ethel Turner, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Rudyard Kipling. All texts are introduced with contextualizing headnotes and are organized chronologically; they can also be referenced by theme, genre, author and country. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Hunt's introduction discusses the ways in which the history of children's literature may be, and has been, read, and sets out four key criteria for selecting the texts: that they are historically significant, representative of their period or country, readable, and comprehensible in extract form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this important anthology will provide students and general readers with an indispensable, much needed, and above all, entertaining account of the development of the form in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has written 11 books and over 200 articles on children's literature. Among his most recent books are the \u003ci\u003eInternational Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2001) and \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature: An Illustrated History\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.45 x 9.6 x 6.72 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756830032160,"sku":"9780631210498","price":131.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/596dd56bc436825cd24d5bfbc7570335.webp?v=1780087552","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/childrens-literature-an-anthology-1801-1902-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}