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Written for children : an outline of English-language children's literature
- Title
- Written for children : an outline of English-language children's literature / John Rowe Townsend.
- Author
- Townsend, John Rowe.
- Publication
- New York : Lippincott, 1983.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KH 1983 Townsend 15-1563 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Description
- 384 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1983.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-364) and index.
- Binding (note)
- Bound in green cloth boards with paper cover.
- Contents
- Before 1840. The beginnings ; Mr Locke and Mr Newbery ; Rousseau and the lady writers ; Fact and fancy -- 1840-1915. Nineteenth-century adventures ; Domestic dramas ; Imagination rehabilitated ; The never-lands ; The world of school ; Articulate animals ; Writers in rhyme ; Pictures that tell a story -- 1915-1945. Fantasy between the wars ; Past into present ; Craftsmen in two media -- Since 1945. Re-expanding the far horizons ; Historical approaches ; Not so flimsy ; Flying high ; Realism, British-style ; Realism, American-style ; Realism, wider-range ; How young is an adult? ; Virtuosity in verse ; Picture books in bloom : U.S.A. ; Picture books in bloom : Britain ; Since 1973 (i) : older fiction ; Since 1973 (ii) : younger fiction, picture books and poetry.
- Call Number
- *KH 1983 Townsend 15-1563
- ISBN
- 0397320523
- 9780397320523
- LCCN
- 83047654
- OCLC
- 9325272
- Author
- Townsend, John Rowe.
- Title
- Written for children : an outline of English-language children's literature / John Rowe Townsend.
- Imprint
- New York : Lippincott, 1983.
- Edition
- 2nd rev. ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-364) and index.
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth boards with paper cover. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.Children's Room Collection.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Townsend, John Rowe. Written for children. 2nd rev. ed. New York : Lippincott, 1983 (OCoLC)654624016
- Research Call Number
- *KH 1983 Townsend 15-1563