Children's Literature Collections [electronic resource] : Approaches to Research /
O'Sullivan, Keith.editor.
Whyte, Pádraic.editor.
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Introduction; Pádraic Whyte and Keith O’Sullivan -- Chapter 1. Instruction with Delight; Máire Kennedy -- Chapter 2. Irish Children’s Books 1696‒1810; Anne Markey -- Chapter 3. The Great Famine in Irish History Textbooks, 1900–1971; Ciara Boylan -- Chapter 4. The Development of the Irish Immigrant Experience in Irish-American Children’s Literature 1850‒1900; Ciara Gallagher -- Chapter 5. Time and the Child; Aileen Douglas -- Chapter 6. Picking Grandmamma’s Pockets; Jarlath Killeen and Marion Durnin -- Chapter 7. From Superstition to Enchantment; Ciara Ní Bhroin -- Chapter 8. ‘Firing for the Hearth’; Pádraic Whyte -- Chapter 9. Kildare Place Society and the Beginnings of Formal Education in Ireland; Susan M. Parkes -- Chapter 10. Homespun Books; Julie Anne Stevens -- Chapter 11. The Puffin Story Books Phenomenon; Keith O’Sullivan -- Chapter 12. Picturing Possibilities in Children’s Book Collections; Valerie Coghlan. .
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices. .
Children's literature.
European literature.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Children's Literature.
European Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.