/local_assets/ca Click here for quick links About OUP Contact Us Search the Catalogue Services and Resources Site Map How to Order OUP Worldwide Home OUP Canada Home Education K-12 Higher Education English as a Second Language General and Reference Book Information Online Order Form Search the catalogue Features Table of Contents ... Web links Canadian Author From Instruction to Delight - An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850 Second Edition Patricia Demers , Department of English, University of Alberta Price: $ 34.95 CDN ISBN: 0-19-541889-1 Publication date: September 2003 OUP Canada 384 pages, 110 black and white illustrations, 6" x 9" Ordering Customers in Canada can place an order using our online order form Academics can order examination copies for this title. - The only text to anthologize the earliest period of children's literature (c. 1000-1850)
- Selections range from complete stories, excerpted short stories, verse, to lessons
- Selections are arranged chronologically and subdivided into appropriate thematic chapters to compliment the chronological organization
- Richly illustrated with the original black and white woodcuts that serve to highlight the literature itself
Description Children's literature as we know it did not exist before the mid-eighteenth century; yet from medieval times on, a wealth of poetry and prose was read by and to children. In this anthology Patricia Demers illustrates the development of that literature, from its earnest beginnings to the dawn of its Golden Age, introducing the selections and placing them in historical context. From early colloquies and hornbooks to charming miniature libraries, the selectionsmany of which are accompanied by their original illustrationsprovide a window through which to trace the developing concept of childhood in itself and the cultural value of the child. | |
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