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Direct linkDoherty, Peter – Children's Literature in Education, 2017
This article considers the extent to which medieval "mappaemundi" are an important precedent for literary cartographies in fiction for children. It connects the notion of embeddedness to Peta Mitchell's (2011) suggestion that "mappaemundi" refused to entertain the later, post-Enlightenment cartographic distinction between…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Maps, Cartography, Medieval Literature
Lustig, T. J. – Children's Literature in Education, 2014
The article begins by assessing Enid Blyton's contribution to the Arthurian revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, setting this in the context of longstanding debates about the function of children's literature. It goes on to argue that Blyton's use of the story of Enid in "The Knights of the Round…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Literary Genres, Eighteenth Century Literature, Literature Appreciation
Tomlinson, Johanna Ruth Brinkley – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Two children, Dan and Una, sit in the woods and listen to a story of Britain's early history told to them by Sir Richard, a spirit conjured from the past for this instructive purpose. In this tale, Sir Richard gains treasure by defeating the "devils" that terrorize a village of African people. In many ways, this framed narrative sets up…
Descriptors: Fantasy, English Literature, Childrens Literature, Children
Parlevliet, Sanne; Dekker, Jeroen J. H. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
One of the most popular Dutch educational enlightenment authors was Hieronymus van Alphen. His three volumes of "Little Poems for Children" published in 1778 and 1782 were extremely successful, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Inspired by the German poets Christian Felix Weisse and Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann, Van Alphen brought about an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Eighteenth Century Literature, Childrens Literature
Download full textHaviland, Virginia, Comp. – 1976
This annotated list of reading materials available to American children in 1776 includes both items published on this side of the Atlantic and works issued abroad and sold here as imports. The titles are divided into five categories: (1) primers and other instructional texts, (2) works intended for moral and religious instruction, (3) stories, (4)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedSotiropoulos, Carol Strauss – Children's Literature in Education, 2001
Argues that precepts for cultivating the rational child, illustrated by Maria and Richard Edgeworth in their handbook "Practical Education," collide with fictional presentations of those precepts in Maria's novella "The Good French Governess." Considers how the collision between the demands of ideology and the needs of fiction…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Eighteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedBenton, Michael – Children's Literature in Education, 1996
Examines issues about the representation of children in art during the 18th and 19th centuries: (1) main representations during this period; (2) principal influences affecting the construction of these images; and (3) whether the verbal and visual arts conceptualize childhood in similar or different ways. Looks at three influences on writers and…
Descriptors: Art History, Children, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature
Alberghene, Janice M. – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1988
Surveys research on children's literature and humor by professionals in the field. Presents an overview of pre-twentieth century books which indicate the main lines of development of humor in children's literature. (FMW)
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature
Giorgetti, Dala, Ed.; Bonardi, Carlo, Ed. – 1982
Produced on the hundredth anniversary of "Pinocchio" in an attempt to draw a comparison of the books for children and young people produced between the end of the eighteenth and the end of the nineteenth centuries in various countries, this catalog, primarily in Italian, begins with a bilingual (Italian and English) discussion of children's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Global Approach
Peer reviewedProvenzo, Eugene F., Jr. – Teachers College Record, 1983
The holdings of the Darton Collection, a special library of children's books published in England before 1850, are discussed. The collection, housed at Columbia University in New York City, includes childrens' games and illustrations as well as books. (PP)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Games, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature
Styles, Morag; Arizpe, Evelyn – Children's Literature in Education, 2004
The extraordinary nursery library produced by Jane Johnson (circa 1742-1747), entirely in the private domain with no thought of publication, holds pride of place in the Lilly Library's collection of early children's books at the University of Indiana, USA. It has already been celebrated in an exhibition and international conference held at the…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Reading Materials, Reading Instruction
Lee, Elaine Jones – 1976
Samples of English and American children's publications were surveyed to determine their breadth and variety during the literary period from 1744 to 1850; the patterns of continuity and discontinuity, for and between the two countries, of each thematic category surveyed; and the point at which the publications seemed to indicate that American…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Hearn, Michael Patrick – Teaching and Learning Literature with Children and Young Adults, 1998
Discusses the work of Frenchman Charles Perrault, the seminal figure in fairy tales, and puts it in context of the French fairy tale fashion. Describes how the fairy tale came to England. Describes how the Germans revived the fairy tale at the end of the 18th century, and discusses the work of the Brothers Grimm. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Fables
Butler, Francelia, Ed. – 1976
Because this periodical about children's literature was published during 1976, the United States Bicentennial Year, it features contemporary essays on American children's literature from the colonial age to the present. Other essays discuss the current state of children's literature and the practices used in its criticism, German and Italian…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Townsend, John Rowe – 1965
Children's prose literature in Britain is surveyed from the 17th century to the present. The main stream of this development is exemplified by an examination of the lives and works of such authors as (1) John Newbery, whose books for children include "Goody Two-Shoes" (1766), (2) Mrs. Sherwood, whose didactic books contain a moral lesson in every…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Didacticism
