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"Children's Stories in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Tennyson" is a children's books on literature written by American children's author Henrietta Christian Wright. Wright introduces literary works by Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, John Bunyan and many others with biographical and historic notes before re-telling their writings in language for children. Table of Contents: Shakespeare—Sixteenth Century Bacon—Sixteenth Century Milton—Seventeenth Century John Bunyan—Seventeenth Century The Essay and the Poetry of the Eighteenth Century The Birth of the Novel—Eighteenth Century Jonathan Swift—Eighteenth Century History in the Eighteenth Century Johnson—Eighteenth Century The Romantic Novel—Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century Prose Nineteenth Century Poetry
Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
A History of Children's Reading and Literature presents the pattern of educational activity in relation to the methods undertaken in the schools, and the extent to which books are used in the advancement of literacy. This book describes the factors that are contributory or detrimental to the growth of literacy, including educational provision, the availability of school and public libraries, the use of books in schools, and the parallel evolution of recreational literature of all kinds. Organized into 22 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the educational activity during the years of economic depression wherein economic factors resulted in a national state of social unrest that both State and Church came to recognize could be controlled only by the extension of education. This text then describes the successive educational legislation and other factors that contributed to the advancement of public libraries in the last three decades of the 19th century. This book is a valuable resource for teachers, parents, and students.