Behold the Child
Subtitle: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780801850660
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Juvenile Literature; Literary Criticism; United States; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Children; Books And Reading; Children's literature, American; History; History and criticism
First sentence: 'Nothing in our more diffuse civilisation,' wrote William Sloane in his account of seventeenth-century children's books, 'quite holds the pivotal position, the centrality, which religion held in seventeenth century England and America.