Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature - Brossura

Carpenter, Humphrey

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ISBN 10: 004440056X ISBN 13: 9780044400561

Casa editrice: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1987

Riassunto

Covering the period from the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh, Humphrey Carpenter examines the lives and writings of Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, George Macdonald, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A.A. Milne and others whose works make up the Golden Age of children's literature. Both a collective biography and a work of criticism, Secret Gardens forces us to reconsider childhood classics in a new light. 'Secret Gardens permits us to see in a fresh light the interaction between cultural history and literature, and to realize that ... it wasn't mere misfits who withdrew into the writing of children's books, but rather the sort of misfits who reflected the prevailing dissatisfactions of the age.' New York Times Book Review

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Towards the end of the nineteenth century children's literature in England entered a Golden Age. Within the space of seventy years some of the greatest classics were written; from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh and The Tales of Beatrix Potter. Humphrey Carpenter, co-author of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and author of several highly acclaimed biographies, reassesses the achievements of this fascinating group of writers whose work has delighted generations and has been as influential in its way as that of the romantics or modernists.Mr Carpenter is an enthusiast whose book is as filled with entertaining ideas and information as any fan of children's books could wish. Rachel Billington, Evening Standard .His book is completely engrossing and valuably reshapes its subject. John Carey, Sunday Times. I found it a most enjoyable book. Naomi Lewis, The Observer. His critical manner is in many respects exemplary: sharp, resourceful, diverting and illuminating. Patricia Craig, London Review of Books.

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• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 004440056X
• ISBN 13: 9780044400561
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 247