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In The Children's Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind
of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick's1805
product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the
context of Marjorie Moon's 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart's
Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first century cultural
sensibilities are informed by late eighteenth-century attitudes
towards children, reading, knowledge, and publishing. The thinking,
knowing children of the Enlightenment, she argues, are models for
present day technologically-connected, socially-conscious children;
the increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant
children are bracketed between the two periods. By drawing on
recent scholarship in several fields including book history,
cultural studies, and educational theory, The Children's Book
Business provides a detailed historical picture of the landscape of
some of the trade practices of early publishers, and explains how
they developed in concert with the progressive pedagogies of
several female authors, including Eliza Fenwick, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Ann and Jane
Taylor. Paul's revisionist reading of the history of children's
literature will be of interest to scholars working in
eighteenth-century studies, book history, childhood studies,
cultural studies, educational history, and children's literature.
Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for
Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade,
there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many
areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant
scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywords for Children’s
Literature presents original essays on essential terms and concepts
in the field. Covering ideas from “Aesthetics” to “Voice,”
an impressive multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores and
expands on the vocabulary central to the study of children’s
literature. The second edition of this Keywords volume goes beyond
disciplinary and national boundaries. Across fifty-nine print
essays and nineteen online essays, it includes contributors from
twelve countries and an international advisory board from over a
dozen more. The fully revised and updated selection of critical
writing—more than half of the essays are new to this
edition—reflects an intentionally multinational perspective,
taking into account non-English traditions and what childhood looks
like in an age of globalization. All authors trace their
keyword’s uses and meanings: from translation to poetry, taboo to
diversity, and trauma to nostalgia, the book’s scope, clarity,
and interdisciplinary play between concepts make this new edition
of Keywords for Children’s Literature essential reading for
scholars and students alike.
Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global
wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for
reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the
lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the
Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North
America, and the Global South during the First World War and
surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children's
Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available
archival resources (including letters written by children), the
contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of
childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed
as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were
transformed into socially responsible children actively committing
themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural
connections across what had been perceived as 'enemy' lines,
perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian
children's literature and culture are situated so that they work in
conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational
range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a
particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the
impact of war on the lives of children.
Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global
wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for
reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the
lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the
Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North
America, and the Global South during the First World War and
surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children's
Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available
archival resources (including letters written by children), the
contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of
childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed
as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were
transformed into socially responsible children actively committing
themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural
connections across what had been perceived as 'enemy' lines,
perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian
children's literature and culture are situated so that they work in
conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational
range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a
particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the
impact of war on the lives of children.
In The Children's Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind
of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick's1805
product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the
context of Marjorie Moon's 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart's
Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first century cultural
sensibilities are informed by late eighteenth-century attitudes
towards children, reading, knowledge, and publishing. The thinking,
knowing children of the Enlightenment, she argues, are models for
present day technologically-connected, socially-conscious children;
the increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant
children are bracketed between the two periods. By drawing on
recent scholarship in several fields including book history,
cultural studies, and educational theory, The Children's Book
Business provides a detailed historical picture of the landscape of
some of the trade practices of early publishers, and explains how
they developed in concert with the progressive pedagogies of
several female authors, including Eliza Fenwick, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Ann and Jane
Taylor. Paul's revisionist reading of the history of children's
literature will be of interest to scholars working in
eighteenth-century studies, book history, childhood studies,
cultural studies, educational history, and children's literature.
Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for
Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade,
there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many
areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant
scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywords for Children’s
Literature presents original essays on essential terms and concepts
in the field. Covering ideas from “Aesthetics” to “Voice,”
an impressive multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores and
expands on the vocabulary central to the study of children’s
literature. The second edition of this Keywords volume goes beyond
disciplinary and national boundaries. Across fifty-nine print
essays and nineteen online essays, it includes contributors from
twelve countries and an international advisory board from over a
dozen more. The fully revised and updated selection of critical
writing—more than half of the essays are new to this
edition—reflects an intentionally multinational perspective,
taking into account non-English traditions and what childhood looks
like in an age of globalization. All authors trace their
keyword’s uses and meanings: from translation to poetry, taboo to
diversity, and trauma to nostalgia, the book’s scope, clarity,
and interdisciplinary play between concepts make this new edition
of Keywords for Children’s Literature essential reading for
scholars and students alike.
This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an
extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the
late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from
country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul
brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal
the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era,
and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself.
Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a
member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage
crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature
to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados,
becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of
slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish
schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the
while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining
her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the
story of her life. Published by the University of Delaware Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an
extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the
late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from
country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul
brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal
the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era,
and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself.
Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a
member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage
crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature
to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados,
becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of
slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish
schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the
while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining
her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the
story of her life. Published by the University of Delaware Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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