The children's book business : lessons from the long eighteenth century / Lissa Paul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, Lissa.

Series:

Children's literature and culture ; 72.

Children's literature and culture ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature, English--Publishing--History--18th century.

Children's literature, English.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Children--Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Children.

Children--Books and reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Children's Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick's1805 product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the context of Marjorie Moon's 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first century cultural sensibilities are informed by late eighteenth-century attitudes towards children, reading, knowledge, and publishing. The thinking, knowing children of the Enlightenment, she argues, are models for present day technologically-connected, socially-conscious

Contents:

Introduction: And in this book there are many houses

This is the house that Ben built

These are the books that lived in the house that Ben built

These are the lessons taught from the books that lived in the house that Ben built

These are the women who wrote the books that lived in the house that Ben built

These are (not) the children who read the books that lived in the house that Ben built

In the end.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613041371

9781136841965

1136841962

9781136841972

1136841970

9781283041379

1283041375

9780203833254

0203833252

OCLC:

704278286