A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present

by Brown; Penelope E.

• ISBN13: 9780415973274
• ISBN10: 0415973279
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This two-volume critical history of French children?s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality and importance of French children?s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne and Saint-Exupery were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.

Author Biography

Penny Brown is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Manchester, U.K.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Series Editor's Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Old Friends, and Children's Books on the Move	p. 11
The Novel of Domestic Realism, or the Family Novel	p. 39
Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Jules Verne, and the Adventure of Science	p. 77
Signs of the Times	p. 119
The Early Twentieth Century	p. 149
The Role of Images	p. 179
The Renaissance of the Imagination	p. 223
A Literature for Children	p. 265
Conclusion	p. 307
Notes	p. 313
Bibliography	p. 343
Index	p. 353
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