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The Land of Story-Books : Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century /
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As well as revisiting much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inher...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) ;
no. 23. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Educating the female child : debates from the Scottish periodical press in enlightenment Scotland, 1750-1800 / Rhona Brown
- The young person's Sir Walter : Scott and the nineteenth-century child reader / Paul Barnaby
- 'Entertaining and instructing histories' : children's chapbook literature in the nineteenth century / Valentina Bold
- Nature versus nurture : Robert Chambers as a writer for children / Shu-Fang Lai
- The Scottish nursery muse : Scottish poetry and the children's verse tradition in the Victorian period / Kirstie Blair
- Gaelic tradition and the Celtic revival in children's literature in Scottish Gaelic and English / Sìm Innes and Kate Louise Mathis
- Historical facts and 'romantic daring' : Thomas Nelson & Sons, the adventure tale, and the late-Victorian education market / Anne Marie Hagen
- Symbolism and empire : Stevenson, Scott, and toy soldiers / Adam Kozaczka
- The darkening island : Stevenson, Barrie, and the perils of childhood / Timothy S. Hayes
- Colonising Neverland : British motherhood as imaginative play in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy / Rodney M.D. Fierce
- 'Staunch little democrat that he was' : humanitarian sentiment, social reform, and political idealism in Eleanor Atkinson's Greyfriars Bobby / David Salter
- Youthful visionaries in Margaret Oliphant's fin-de-siecle fiction / Anne Stapleton
- A Scottish child's memento mori : language, folklore, and landscape in George MacDonald's Ranald Bannerman's boyhood / J. Patrick Pazdziora
- Betwixt-and-between : Barrie, Shakespeare, and playing at childhood / Caitlin R. Hansen
- Two telling tales : didacticism as a means of feminine empowerment in Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House and Dinah Mulock Craik's Alice Learmont / Linda Claridge Middup
- Romance, death and other predicaments : guidance for the young in the fiction of Mary Gordon (Mrs. Disney Leith) / Janet Powney and Jeremy Mitchell
- Unlocking Scottish balladry and folklore in George MacDonald's 'The golden key' / Linden Bicket
- 'A great, unlimited world'? Imaginative locations in the fairy tales of Jessie Saxby and Violet Jacob / Sarah Dunnigan
- 'To children and others' : audience, advertising, and the reception of Andrew Lang's fairy books (1889-1910) / Sara M. Hines
- 'It is lovely to be five' / Lyn Stevens, Danielle Howarth, Morgan Boharski, Joanna Witkowska.