Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- ERRATA
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Chap. I An Introductory Survey
- Chap. II The Legacy of the Middle Ages: (i) Fables
- Chap. III The Legacy of the Middle Ages: (ii) Romance and Manners
- Chap. IV The Puritans: “Good Godly Books”
- Chap. V The Pedlar's Pack: “The Running Stationers”
- Chap. VI Fairy-Tale and Nursery Rhyme
- Chap. VII Interim: Between the Old and the New
- Chap. VIII John Newbery
- Chap. IX The Theorists: Thomas Day, the Edgeworths, and French Influence
- Chap. X The Moral Tale: (i) Didactic
- Chap. XI The Moral Tale: (ii) Persuasive; chiefly in verse
- Chap. XII Interim Again: the Dawn of Levity
- Chap. XIII Two New Englands: “Peter Parley” and “Felix Summerly”
- Chap. XIV The ‘Sixties, Alice and After
- Chap. XV The ‘Eighties and To-day: Freedom
- Index
List of Plates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- ERRATA
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Chap. I An Introductory Survey
- Chap. II The Legacy of the Middle Ages: (i) Fables
- Chap. III The Legacy of the Middle Ages: (ii) Romance and Manners
- Chap. IV The Puritans: “Good Godly Books”
- Chap. V The Pedlar's Pack: “The Running Stationers”
- Chap. VI Fairy-Tale and Nursery Rhyme
- Chap. VII Interim: Between the Old and the New
- Chap. VIII John Newbery
- Chap. IX The Theorists: Thomas Day, the Edgeworths, and French Influence
- Chap. X The Moral Tale: (i) Didactic
- Chap. XI The Moral Tale: (ii) Persuasive; chiefly in verse
- Chap. XII Interim Again: the Dawn of Levity
- Chap. XIII Two New Englands: “Peter Parley” and “Felix Summerly”
- Chap. XIV The ‘Sixties, Alice and After
- Chap. XV The ‘Eighties and To-day: Freedom
- Index
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- Children's Books in EnglandFive Centuries of Social Life, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1932