Children's Literature

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Introduction            Toward a New History of Children’s Literature
Chapter One          Speak, Child: Children’s Literature in Classical Antiquity
Chapter Two          Ingenuity and Authority: Aesop’s Fables and Their Afterlives 
Chapter Three        Court, Commerce, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood
Chapter Four          From Alphabet to Elegy: The Puritan Impact on Children’s Literature
Chapter Five          Playthings of the Mind: John Locke and Children’s Literature 
Chapter Six            Canoes and Cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies                         
Chapter Seven        From Islands to Empires: Storytelling for a Boy’s World
Chapter Eight         On beyond Darwin: From Kingsley to Seuss
Chapter Nine          Ill-Tempered and Queer: Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern
Chapter Ten           Straw into Gold: Fairy-Tale Philology
Chapter Eleven       Theaters of Girlhood: Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction
Chapter Twelve      Pan in the Garden: The Edwardian Turn in Children’s Literature
Chapter Thirteen     Good Feeling: Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children’s Literature
Chapter Fourteen   Keeping Things Straight: Style and the Child
Chapter Fifteen       Tap Your Pencil on the Paper: Children’s Literature in an Ironic Age
Epilogue                 Children’s Literature and the History of the Book
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index