本书目录 · · · · · · List of Illustrations Introduction Toward a New History of Children’s Literature Chapter One Speak, Child: Children’s Literature in Classical Antiquity Chapter Two Ingenuity and Authority: Aesop’s Fables and Their Afterlives Chapter Three Court, Commerce, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood Chapter Four From Alphabet to Elegy: The Puritan Impact on Children’s Literature Chapter Five Playthings of the Mind: John Locke and Children’s Literature Chapter Six Canoes and Cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies Chapter Seven From Islands to Empires: Storytelling for a Boy’s World Chapter Eight On beyond Darwin: From Kingsley to Seuss Chapter Nine Ill-Tempered and Queer: Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern Chapter Ten Straw into Gold: Fairy-Tale Philology Chapter Eleven Theaters of Girlhood: Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction Chapter Twelve Pan in the Garden: The Edwardian Turn in Children’s Literature Chapter Thirteen Good Feeling: Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children’s Literature Chapter Fourteen Keeping Things Straight: Style and the Child Chapter Fifteen Tap Your Pencil on the Paper: Children’s Literature in an Ironic Age Epilogue Children’s Literature and the History of the Book Acknowledgments Notes Index
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