Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850
Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-901088-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This rich survey of children's literature from the middle ages to the mid-nineteenth century features a remarkable variety of literary forms, including fairy tales, fables, letters, and poems. Drawing on an ever-growing body of scholarship, this anthology places each selection in the context of its era and helps students develop an appreciation of early children's literature.
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- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part One: Early Lessons at Home and School
- AELFRIC
- From The Colloquy (c. 1000)
- BARTHOLOMEW THE ENGLISHMAN
- From On the Properties of Things (c. 1250)
- ANONYMOUS
- The ABC of Aristotle (c. 1430)
- FRANCIS SEAGER
- From The Schoole of Vertue and Booke of Good Nurture (1557)
- HUGH RHODES
- From The Boke of Nurture, or Schoole of Good Manners (1577)
- HUGH PLAT
- From A Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594)
- The Hornbook
- The Battledore
- Domestic Writing: Juvenilia and Mothers' Advice
- WILLIAM PAGET
- 'A new yeres gift' (1581)
- GEORGE BERKELEY
- 'George Bercklay to his grandfather' (1610) and 'George to Mrs Cave his mothers wayting woman' (c. 1613)
- MARY DOWNING
- A Letter to her Father: Mary Downing to Emmanuel Downing (1635)
- ELIZABETH GRYMESTON
- From Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives (1604)
- ELIZABETH JOSCELIN
- From The Mothers Legacie to her Unborne Childe (1624)
- Writing of Clergymen and Schoolmasters
- EDWARD TOPSELL
- From The Historie of Four-Footed Beastes (1607)
- JOHAN AMOS COMENIUS
- From Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659)
- Part Two: Puritan 'Hell-Fire': Warnings and Warmth
- JOHN COTTON
- From Milk for Babes (1646)
- ANNE BRADSTREET
- 'Upon my Son Samuel' (1657) and 'In reference to her Children' (1659)
- JAMES JANEWAY
- From A Token for Children (1672)
- BENJAMIN KEACH
- From War with the Devil (1673)
- From The New England Primer (1683-1830)
- JOHN BUNYAN
- From A Book for Boys and Girls (1686)
- Part Three: Lyrical Instruction: Christian Songs and Secular Fables
- Holy Commotions in the Soul
- ISAAC WATTS
- From Divine Songs (1715) and Moral Songs (1740)
- Witty Instructions in the World
- ROGER L'ESTRANGE NEW
- 'A Lyon and a Mouse,' From Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflexions (1692, 1694, 1720)
- SAMUEL CROXALL
- 'The Shepherd's Boy,' NEW 'The Fox and the Goat,' From The Fables of Aesop and Others (1722)
- JOHN GAY
- From Fables (1727)
- MARY BARBER
- From Poems on Several Occasions (1734)
- Part Four: Mother Goose and Chapbooks
- Fairy Tales in English
- CHARLES PERRAULT NEW
- 'Cinderilla' and 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,' From Histories or Tales of Past Times with Morals, translated by Robert Samber (1729)
- Ballads and Folklore
- An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1744)
- The Interesting Story of the Children in the Wood (1595)
- From The Life and Death of Tom Thumb (c.1703)
- The Friar and Boy; or EW The Young Piper's Pleasant Pastime (1760)
- From The Riddle Book; or, Fireside Amusements (late eighteenth century)
- Part Five: Boreman, Cooper, and Newbery: 'Instruction with Delight'
- THOMAS BOREMAN
- From The Gigantick History (1741)
- JOHN NEWBERY
- From A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744)
- From Nurse Truelove's New Year's Gift (1755)
- From The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765)
- Part Six: Rational Moralists
- Tutors' Lessons by Example: Dramatic, Useful Knowledge
- SARAH FIELDING
- From The Governess (1749)
- DANIEL FENNING NEW
- 'A Set of Alphabetical Copies,' From The Universal Spelling-Book (1755)
- MARY ANN KILNER
- From The Adventures of a Pincushion (c. 1780)
- JANE CAVE
- From Poems on Various Subjects (1783)
- ANNE 'NANCY' SHIPPEN LIVINGSTON
- From Nancy Shippen: Her Journal Book (1783)
- THOMAS DAY
- From The History of Sandford and Merton (1783)
- LADY ELLENOR FENN
- From Cobwebs to Catch Flies (c. 1783)
- DOROTHY KILNER NEW
- 'A Conversation between Master Tommy and Miss Jenny on Reading,' From Poems on Various Subjects for the Amusement of Youth (1785)
- MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
- From Original Stories from Real Life (1788)
- PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD
- From Mental Improvement (1794)
- MARIA EDGEWORTH
- 'The Purple Jar,' From Early Lessons (1801)
- The Perennial Fable
- LADY ELLENOR FENN NEW
- 'The Fox and the Crow,' From Fables in Monosyllables by Mrs Teachwell (1783)
- ROBERT DODSLEY
- 'The Tortoise and the Two Ducks,' From Dodsley in Miniature; or, The Polite Fabulist (1803)
- EDWARD BALDWIN (WILLIAM GODWIN) NEW
- 'The Dog in the Manger,' From Fables Ancient and Modern (1805)
- Children Giving and Receiving Instruction
- CATHARINE PARR TRAILL
- From The Young Emigrants (1826)
- HENRY SHARPE HORSLEY
- From The Affectionate Parent's Gift (1828)
- JANE MARCET
- From Mary's Grammar (1835)
- JACOB ABBOTT
- 'The Reason Why' From Rollo at School (1839)
- BARBARA HOFLAND
- 'Janetta and her Jujubes', From Farewell Tales Founded on Facts (1840)
- Part Seven: Sunday School Moralists
- Children Learning Eagerly
- GEORGE BURDER
- From Early Piety (1777)
- ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD
- From Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) and Lessons for Children: Part Four (1788)
- SARAH TRIMMER
- From Fabulous Histories (1786) and The Charity School Spelling Book (c. 1798)
- ROWLAND HILL
- From Divine Hymns (1790) and Instructions for Children (1794)
- Lessons from Life
- HANNAH MORE
- 'Black Giles, the Poacher: Part II' From Cheap Repository Tracts (1796)
- MARY MARTHA SHERWOOD
- From The History of the Fairchild Family (1818)
- FAVELL LEE MORTIMER
- From The Peep of Day (1833)
- MRS DALBY
- From Dutch Tiles (1842)
- Part Eight: Harbingers of the Golden Age
- Poetry for All Ages
- CHRISTOPHER SMART
- From Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1772) and 'My Cat Jeoffry', From Jubilate Agno
- WILLIAM BLAKE
- From Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
- Playful Instruction
- LADY ELLENOR FENN NEW
- The Grammar Box (1790)
- 'Education,' From Hieroglyphic Amusement (1791)
- JOHN MARSHALL
- From The Infant's Library (c. 1800)
- Ivory Paddles (c. 1800) NEW
- The Infant's Cabinet of Various Objects (1801) NEW
- The Book Case of Instruction (1812-1813) NEW
- L'Alphabet Moral (1820) NEW
- From First Book for Children (1823) NEW
- From Nouvel Alphabet pour les Commençans (1830) NEW
- The Royal ABC (c. 1844) NEW
- The Earth and Its Inhabitants (1850) NEW
- Versified Delights and Re-tellings
- ANN TAYLOR GILBERT and JANE TAYLOR
- From Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804-1805) and Rhymes for the Nursery (1806)
- ELIZABETH TURNER
- From The Daisy (1807)
- WILLIAM ROSCOE
- The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807)
- FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE
- From Poems (1808)
- RICHARD SCRAFTON SHARPE
- The Master Cat or Puss in Boots (1808)
- CHARLES LAMB
- Beauty and the Beast (1811)
- From Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (1813)
- CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
- 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas' (1823)
- SARAH JOSEPHA HALE
- From Poems for Our Children (1830)
- ELEANOR MURE
- The Story of the Three Bears (1831)
- MARY BOTHAM HOWITT
- From Sketches of Natural History (1834)
- The Charm of Narrative
- CATHERINE SINCLAIR
- From Holiday House: A Series of Tales (1839)
- ELIZA LEE FOLLEN
- From New Nursery Songs for All Good Children (1843)
- EDWARD LEAR
- From The Book of Nonsense (1846)
- HEINRICH HOFFMANN
- From The English Struwwelpeter (1848)
- JANE COTTON BOUCHER de MONTIZAMBERT
- The Sad Tale of Mrs Mole and Mrs Mouse (c. 1849)
- JAKOB and WILHELM GRIMM NEW
- 'Hansel and Grethel,' From Household Stories (1853)
- Bibliography
- Index
