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Children's literature of the English Renaissance / Warren W. Wooden ; edited, with an introduction, by Jeanie Watson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection 42.7 W85
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wooden, Warren W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
- Children's literature, English.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Children--Books and reading--England--History.
- Children.
- Children--Books and reading.
- England.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
- Contents:
- From Caxton to Comenius
- Childermass sermons in late medieval England
- Childhood and death
- The topos of childhood in Marian England
- John Foxe's Book of martyrs and the child reader
- Michael Drayton's Nymphidia
- A Child's garden of sprites
- The Water-poet
- Nature moralized, John Bunyan's Country rhimes for children.
- Notes:
- Some essays published previously.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [175]-178.
- ISBN:
- 0813115876 :
- OCLC:
- 13794112
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