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From chapbooks to plumb cake: The history of children's literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From chapbooks to plumb cake: The history of children's literature./
Author:	Bradley, Johanna.
Description:	107 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Violet Harris.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	Education, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3290182
ISBN:	9780549340706

From chapbooks to plumb cake: The history of children's literature.
Bradley, Johanna.

From chapbooks to plumb cake: The history of children's literature. - 107 p.

Adviser: Violet Harris.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

This study examined the role of chapbooks in relationship to the rise of literacy and public education in early modern England, and also examined the role of chapbooks in the history of children's literature. It was argued that chapbooks played a fundamental, and often ignored role in the creation of a literature specifically directed toward children; helping to contribute to the development of new work for children. Moreover, the folktales and medieval romances preserved in chapbooks have acted as a catalyst for the creation of imaginative fiction for children down to the present day.

ISBN: 9780549340706Subjects--Topical Terms:

599244
Education, History of.

From chapbooks to plumb cake: The history of children's literature.
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520 $a This study examined the role of chapbooks in relationship to the rise of literacy and public education in early modern England, and also examined the role of chapbooks in the history of children's literature. It was argued that chapbooks played a fundamental, and often ignored role in the creation of a literature specifically directed toward children; helping to contribute to the development of new work for children. Moreover, the folktales and medieval romances preserved in chapbooks have acted as a catalyst for the creation of imaginative fiction for children down to the present day.
520 $a The history of children's literature reflects the conflicting societal impulse between educating and socializing the child, in opposition to the desire to simply amuse the young. This tension has often been summarized as the battle between "instruction and delight." Obviously, the history of children's literature also reflects the larger social struggle of how to define childhood, and the history of this field will always be entrenched in the larger philosophical, literary, religious, socio-economic, and political concerns of the adult population.
520 $a This study sought to explicate this complicated social morass, and also attempted to compare the history of children's literature in America, with the trajectory of the growth of children's literature in Britain. In England, in part because of the influence of chapbooks, and the work of John Newbery, there was a terrific explosion of imaginative literature, after the 1860s and the publication of Alice in Wonderland. In contrast, American children's literature developed a strong tradition in the domestic family story, in part due to the work of Jacob Abbott, but also because of the strong legacy of Puritanism.
520 $a When America does produce some notable works of imaginative fantasy, is by harkening back to the old chapbooks romances. Howard Pyle's King Arthur series incorporates much of the magic and fantasy of old chapbook stories, but nonetheless, his retellings of medieval legends were still constrained by the desire to morally guide children; and they never achieved quite the same flight of fancy as British children's literature.
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