These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written
in English of French children's literature. They provide both an
overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the
present day and detailed discussion of texts that are
representative, innovative, or influential best-sellers in their
own time and beyond. French children's literature is little known
in the English-speaking world and, apart from a small number of
writers and texts, has been relatively neglected in scholarly
studies, despite the prominence of the study of children's
literature as a discipline. This project is groundbreaking in its
coverage of a wide range of genres, tracing the evolution of
children's books in France from early courtesy books, fables and
fairy tales, to eighteenth-century moral tales and educational
drama, nineteenth-century novels of domestic realism and adventure
stories and contemporary detective fiction and fantasy novels.
The discussion traces the relationship between children's
literature and social change, revealing the extent to which
children's books were informed by pedagogical, moral, religious and
political agenda and explores the implications of the dual
imperatives of instruction and amusement which have underpinned
writing for young readers throughout the centuries.
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