Children's Literature of the English Renaissance /

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Warren W. Wooden's pioneering studies of early examples of children's literature throw new light on many accepted works of the English Renaissance period. In consequence, they appear more complex, significant, and successful than hitherto realized. In these nine essays, Wooden traces the r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wooden, Warren W.
Other Authors: Watson, Jeanie, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Renaissance.
English literature > Early modern.
Children's literature, English.
Children > Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Enfants > Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire.
Litterature anglaise > 1500-1700 (Moderne) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature de jeunesse anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Renaissance > England.
Children > Books and reading > England > History.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Children's literature, English > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Caxton to Comenius: The Origins of Children's Literature; 2. Childermass Sermons in Late Medieval England; 3. Childhood and Death: A Reading of John Skelton's Philip Sparrow; 4. The Topos of Childhood in Marian England; 5. John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Child Reader; 6. Michael Drayton's Nymphidia: A Children's Classic?; 7. A Child's Garden of Sprites: English Renaissance Fairy Poetry; 8. The Water-Poet: A Pioneer of Children's Literature; 9. Nature Moralized: John Bunyan's Country Rhimes for Children; Notes.

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