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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
342

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Popular children's literature in Britain
2008, Ashgate
in English
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2007, Ashgate
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Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT

Table of Contents

Before children's literature: Children, chapbooks and popular culture in early modern Britain / M.O. Grenby
Robin Hood in boys' weeklies to 1914 / Kevin Carpenter
From Madame d'Aulnoy to Mother Bunch: Popularity and the fairy tale / David Blamires
From chapbooks to pantomime / George Speaight with Brian Alderson
Finding and sustaining popular appeal: The case of Barbara Hofland / Dennis Butts
Telling the other side: Hesba Stretton's 'Outcast' stories / Elaine Lomax
Exploiting a formula: The adventure stories of G.A. Henty (1832-1902) / Dennis Butts
Angela Brazil and the making of the girls' school story / Judy Simons
Rewarding reads? Giving, receiving and resisting Evangelical reward and prize books / Kimberley Reynolds
Tracts, classics and brands: Science for children in the ninetheenth centrury /Aileen Fyfe
Popular education and big money: Mee, Hammerton and Northcliffe / Gillian Avery
From Froebel teacher to English Disney: The phenomenal success of Enid Blyton / David Rudd
'And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land.' The outrageous success of Roald Dahl / Peter Hollindale
'Most popular ever': The launching of Harry Potter / Julia Eccleshare
The brand, the intertext and the reader: Reading desires in the 'Harry Potter' series / Stacy Gillis.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-325) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/9282
Library of Congress
PR990 .B69 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 342 p. :
Number of pages
342

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23942875M
ISBN 10
1840142421
ISBN 13
9781840142426
LCCN
2007030557

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