From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The Religious Tract Society, Lutterworth Press And Children's Literature - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0718830555 ISBN 13 : 9780718830557

Editeur : Lutterworth Press, 2006

Synopsis

A collection of essays based on the Children's Books History Society study conference marking the bicentenary of the Religious Tract Society and the Lutterworth Press. The book analyses the children's literature it produced, charting the developmentof the genre from the evangelical tract through to the popular school story, spanning the period from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It shows how publishing worked within the context of a missionary society with a global reach. The book details the nature and development of the tract genre both in Britain and America, before looking at the range of RTS and Lutterworth output of children's titles, including its movement into magazine publishing. The work studies the two great magazines for which the RTS and Lutterworth were known to generations of children, the Boy's Own Paper and the Girl's Own Paper, as well as other magazines, such The Child's Companion. There are also chapters on popular tracts, such as The Dairyman's Daughter, and successful authors, from Hesba Stretton and Mrs Walton to W.E. Johns and Laura Ingalls Wilder. These essays explore how, in order to reflect an increasingly secular age, the subject matter widened, providing more non-fiction in its periodicals as well as an increasingly broad range of fiction, mostly secular in nature. It was also necessary for the Society to alter its didactically religious tone in order to present its Christian values with more subtlety. With chapters on subjects as diverse as American religious tracts, boy's school stories, secular publishing for girls and the presentation of gender roles, this collection is a major contribution to publishing history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors include Brian Alderson, Mary Cadogan, Aileen Fyfe and Anne Thwaite.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dennis Butts has taught and lectured in various parts of the country, and is currently teaching the MA Course in Children's Literature at Reading University. He is the former Chairman of The Children's Books History Society, and has written on various aspects of nineteenth-century literature and children's books including studies of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lutterworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0718830555
• ISBN 13: 9780718830557
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Butts Dennis, Garrett Pat
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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