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Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by the children's literature of the time. Each section begins with a general chapter, which explains the relationship between the major issues of each literary period and the formal and thematic qualities of children's texts. Close readings of selected texts fol

Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Literature --- Children --- Children's stories, American --- Children's stories, English --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Romanticism --- Books and reading --- History and criticism. --- 820-93 --- 82-93 --- 820-93 Engelse literatuur: kinderliteratuur; jeugdliteratuur --- Engelse literatuur: kinderliteratuur; jeugdliteratuur --- 82-93 Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur --- Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur --- History and criticism --- Children's literature. --- Children's stories, American - History and criticism. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- English children's stories --- English fiction --- American children's stories --- American fiction --- ROMAN POUR LA JEUNESSE ANGLOPHONE --- ROMAN POUR LA JEUNESSE AMERICAIN --- ENFANTS --- POSTMODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- ROMANTISME --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- LIVRES ET LECTURE --- PAYS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE