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