Popular children's literature in Britain
By: edited by Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, M.O. Grenby.
Contributors: Briggs, Julia.; Butts, Dennis, 1932-; Grenby, M. O. 1970-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781840142426
Subjects: Children's literature, English -- History and criticism; Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain; Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before children's literature: Children, chapbooks and popular culture in early modern Britain / M.O. Grenby; title: Robin Hood in boys' weeklies to 1914 / Kevin Carpenter; title: From Madame d'Aulnoy to Mother Bunch: Popularity and the fairy tale / David Blamires; title: From chapbooks to pantomime / George Speaight with Brian Alderson; title: Finding and sustaining popular appeal: The case of Barbara Hofland / Dennis Butts; title: Telling the other side: Hesba Stretton's 'Outcast' stories / Elaine Lomax; title: Exploiting a formula: The adventure stories of G.A. Henty (1832-1902) / Dennis Butts; title: Angela Brazil and the making of the girls' school story / Judy Simons; title: Rewarding reads? Giving, receiving and resisting Evangelical reward and prize books / Kimberley Reynolds; title: Tracts, classics and brands: Science for children in the ninetheenth centrury /Aileen Fyfe; title: Popular education and big money: Mee, Hammerton and Northcliffe / Gillian Avery; title: From Froebel teacher to English Disney: The phenomenal success of Enid Blyton / David Rudd; title: 'And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land.' The outrageous success of Roald Dahl / Peter Hollindale; title: 'Most popular ever': The launching of Harry Potter / Julia Eccleshare; title: The brand, the intertext and the reader: Reading desires in the 'Harry Potter' series / Stacy Gillis.