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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature

by Alison Lurie

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In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children's literature--from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain to Beatrix Potter--and shows that the best-loved children's books tend to challenge rather than uphold respectable adult values.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222).
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Table of Contents

  1. ch. 1.Subversive children's literature
  2. ch. 2.Folktale liberation
  3. ch. 3.Fairy tale fiction: Fitzgerald to Updike
  4. ch. 4.Braking for elves: fashionable folklore for adults
  5. ch. 5.Child who followed the piper: Kate Greenaway
  6. ch. 6.Tales of terror: Mrs. Clifford
  7. ch. 7.Ford Madox Ford's fairy tales
  8. ch. 8.Animal liberation: Beatrix Potter
  9. ch. 9.Modern magic: E. Nesbit
  10. ch. 10.Boy who couldn't grow up: James Barrie
  11. ch. 11.Happy endings: Frances Hodgson Burnett
  12. ch. 12.Back to Pooh Corner: A.A. Milne
  13. ch. 13.Heroes for our time: J.R.R. Tolkien and T.H. White
  14. ch. 14.Power of Smokey: Richard Adams
  15. ch. 15.Games of dark: William Mayne
  16. ch. 16.Folklore of childhood.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780316246255
Author:
Lurie, Alison
Publisher:
Back Bay Books
Location:
Boston :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Children
Subject:
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Subject:
Books & Reading
Subject:
Children's Literature
Subject:
Children's literature, English
Subject:
Hastcry and cratacasm
Subject:
Social norms in literature.
Subject:
Literary Criticism : General
Edition Description:
1st Back Bay paperback edition.
Series Volume:
no. 510
Publication Date:
19980731
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.52x5.51x.61 in. .70 lbs.
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