Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism

by Deborah Cogan Thacker and Jean Webb

Book Overview

Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by the children's literature of the time.
Each section begins with a general chapter, which explains the relationship between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415204100
• ISBN13: 9780415204101
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 9.3"