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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2012
      03 November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139060752
      9781108033817
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139060752
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 394 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Printing and Publishing History, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    From fables to fairy tales, romances to nursery rhymes, this highly influential 1932 study analyses the evolution of children's literature. Publisher and writer F. J. Harvey Darton (1878–1936) draws upon his family's involvement in children's publishing since the late eighteenth century, his knowledge of medieval literature, and his own extensive collection of children's books to present the first account of English children's literature seen as a continuous whole. Setting children's books in their historical context, the work reflects much about the history of English social life as well as providing an in-depth perspective on the genre - in the author's words 'a chronicle of the English people in their capacity of parents, guardians and educators of children'. A classic and authoritative study for anyone interested in the history of children's literature, Darton's book remains an invaluable source of information on the genre.

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