From Instruction to Delight -

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Résumé :
This rich survey of children's literature from the middle ages to the mid-nineteenth century features a remarkable variety of literary forms, including fairy tales, fables, letters, and poems. Drawing on an ever-growing body of scholarship, this anthology places each selection in the context of its era and helps students develop an appreciation of early children's literature. ...

Biographie:
Patricia Demers, Professor of English at the University of Alberta, has written extensively about children's literature...

Sommaire:

• Illustrations


• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Part One: Early Lessons at Home and School


• AELFRIC


• From The Colloquy (c. 1000)


• BARTHOLOMEW THE ENGLISHMAN


• From On the Properties of Things (c. 1250)


• ANONYMOUS


• The ABC of Aristotle (c. 1430)


• FRANCIS SEAGER


• From The Schoole of Vertue and Booke of Good Nurture (1557)


• HUGH RHODES


• From The Boke of Nurture, or Schoole of Good Manners (1577)


• HUGH PLAT


• From A Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594)


• The Hornbook


• The Battledore


• Domestic Writing: Juvenilia and Mothers' Advice


• WILLIAM PAGET


• 'A new yeres gift' (1581)


• GEORGE BERKELEY


• 'George Bercklay to his grandfather' (1610) and 'George to Mrs Cave his mothers wayting woman' (c. 1613)


• MARY DOWNING


• A Letter to her Father: Mary Downing to Emmanuel Downing (1635)


• ELIZABETH GRYMESTON


• From Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives (1604)


• ELIZABETH JOSCELIN


• From The Mothers Legacie to her Unborne Childe (1624)


• Writing of Clergymen and Schoolmasters


• EDWARD TOPSELL


• From The Historie of Four-Footed Beastes (1607)


• JOHAN AMOS COMENIUS


• From Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659)


• Part Two: Puritan 'Hell-Fire': Warnings and Warmth


• JOHN COTTON


• From Milk for Babes (1646)


• ANNE BRADSTREET


• 'Upon my Son Samuel' (1657) and 'In reference to her Children' (1659)


• JAMES JANEWAY


• From A Token for Children (1672)


• BENJAMIN KEACH


• From War with the Devil (1673)


• From The New England Primer (1683-1830)


• JOHN BUNYAN


• From A Book for Boys and Girls (1686)


• Part Three: Lyrical Instruction: Christian Songs and Secular Fables


• Holy Commotions in the Soul


• ISAAC WATTS


• From Divine Songs (1715) and Moral Songs (1740)


• Witty Instructions in the World


• ROGER L'ESTRANGE NEW


• 'A Lyon and a Mouse,' From Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflexions (1692, 1694, 1720)


• SAMUEL CROXALL


• 'The Shepherd's Boy,' NEW 'The Fox and the Goat,' From The Fables of Aesop and Others (1722)


• JOHN GAY


• From Fables (1727)


• MARY BARBER


• From Poems on Several Occasions (1734)


• Part Four: Mother Goose and Chapbooks


• Fairy Tales in English


• CHARLES PERRAULT NEW


• 'Cinderilla' and 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,' From Histories or Tales of Past Times with Morals, translated by Robert Samber (1729)


• Ballads and Folklore


• An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1744)


• The Interesting Story of the Children in the Wood (1595)


• From The Life and Death of Tom Thumb (c.1703)


• The Friar and Boy...