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This book makes a significant contribution to the history of reading and children's literature in the eighteenth century. Drawing upon the Jane Johnson (1706 - 1759) archives in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Lilly Library, University of Indiana, it is able to document in unmatched detail the typical reading practices of an upper middle class family in this period. More particularly, it draws on these unique collections to throw light on a series of questions currently preoccupying scholars in the fields of the history of reading, the history of children's literature and the history of women. At the same time, the vivid human presence of Jane Johnson and her children gives this book a wide appeal to non-specialist readers and will be the first publication to make thorough use of the Johnson archives. Although the book is academic, theoretical and critical, it is written in a jargon-free manner which is accessible to any intelligent reader. Evelyn Arizpe is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow. Morag Styles is a Reader in Children's Literature and Education at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Homerton College. -- Contents: Foreword by Victor Watson; Prologue: A Story about a Story... by Morag Styles; Introduction: Maternal Pedagogy and Histories of Reading; 1. Family Fictions: In the Footsteps of the Johnsons; 2. The Changing World of Books and Reading in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Reading Lessons from an Eighteenth-Century Nursery; 4. A Mother's Story: Moral Texts and 'Pretty' Readers; 5. Women as Readers: Jane Johnson's Commonplace Book; 6. Reading the World of Adults: The Letters and Journals of Robert and Barbara Johnson; 7. Child's Play for Private and Public Life by Shirley Brice Heath; Appendix i: Johnson Family Tree; Appendix ii: Texts cited and referenced in Jane Johnson's commonplace book; Appendix iii Texts cited and referenced in Robert Augustus Johnson's Journal; Select bibliography; Index
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- PublisherPied Piper Publishing Ltd
- ISBN 10 0955210615
- ISBN 13 9780955210617
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts
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Pied Piper, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955210615
ISBN 13: 9780955210617
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Scarce hardcover, xxiii + 244pp + 4 pages of colour illustrations, 27 b&w figures in text, NOT ex-library. Limited signs of gentle wear, tiny creases to the tips of corners of a portion of leaves. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show small indentations and short creases to edges; price blacked out on the rear panel. Published without a dust jacket. -- This book makes a significant contribution to the history of reading and children's literature in the eighteenth century. Drawing upon the Jane Johnson (1706 - 1759) archives in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Lilly Library, University of Indiana, it is able to document in unmatched detail the typical reading practices of an upper middle class family in this period. More particularly, it draws on these unique collections to throw light on a series of questions currently preoccupying scholars in the fields of the history of reading, the history of children's literature and the history of women. At the same time, the vivid human presence of Jane Johnson and her children gives this book a wide appeal to non-specialist readers and will be the first publication to make thorough use of the Johnson archives. Although the book is academic, theoretical and critical, it is written in a jargon-free manner which is accessible to any intelligent reader. Evelyn Arizpe is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow. Morag Styles is a Reader in Children's Literature and Education at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Homerton College. -- Contents: Foreword by Victor Watson; Prologue: A Story about a Story. / Morag Styles; Introduction: Maternal Pedagogy and Histories of Reading; 1. Family Fictions: In the Footsteps of the Johnsons 2. Changing World of Books and Reading in the Eighteenth Century 3. Reading Lessons From an Eighteenth-century Nursery 4. A Mother's Story: Moral Texts and 'Pretty' Readers 5. Women as Readers: Jane Johnson's Commonplace Books 6. Reading in the World of Adults: The Letters and Journals of Robert and Barbara Johnson 7. Child's Play for Private and Public Life / Shirley Brice Heath; Johnson Family Tree; Texts Cited and Referenced in Jane Johnson's Commonplace Book; Texts Cited and Referenced in Robert Augustus Johnson's Journal; Select Bibliography; Index. Seller Inventory # 005068
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