Poor Monkey Child Literature by Peter Coveney (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's red cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Edition. London: Rockcliff, 1957. Very Good++ condition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are clean and crisp, probably never read. Bibliography. Index. . First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's red cloth/No dust jacket. 8vo. xiv, 297pp.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: xiv, 297 pages 22 cm. Notes: "Now, God help thee, poor monkey!" Lady Macduff to her son, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene ii. Half-title. Renier. Pictorial dust jacket. Publishers' blurb on upper flap and continued on lower flap. Publishers' mark on title page. Red, linen-texture cloth edition binding. Author, title and publisher blocked in gold on spine.Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291) and index. Contents:Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The "Cult of sensibility" and the "Romantic child" -- Chapter Two. Blake's Innocence and Experience -- Chapter Three. Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Chapter Four. From Coleridge to Dickens -- Chapter Five. The child in Dickens -- Chapter Six. George Eliot and Maggie Tulliver -- Chapter Seven. Reduction to absurdity -- Chapter Eight. Innocence in Henry James -- Chapter Nine. Mark Twain and Richard Jefferies -- Chapter Ten. Escape -- Chapter Eleven. The end of the Victorian child -- Chapter Twelve. Joyce : Virginia Woolf : D.H. Lawrence -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.Subjects: James, Henry 1843-1916 Characters Children. Blake, William Poetry Criticism. Geschichte 1800-1957.Children in literature.English literature History and criticism. Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique. Children in literature. English literature.Literatur. Kind. EnglischChildren Special subjects English literature Criticism.Children Special subjects American literature Criticism. English literature History and cricitism.Children in literature.English literature History and criticism. Individualism in literature. USA. Englisch. USA. Children in literatureEnglish literature History and criticism. Children Literary depictions.England Literature. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: xiv, 297 pages 22 cm. Notes: "Now, God help thee, poor monkey!" Lady Macduff to her son, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene ii. Half-title. Renier. Pictorial dust jacket. Publishers' blurb on upper flap and continued on lower flap. Publishers' mark on title page. Red, linen-texture cloth edition binding. Author, title and publisher blocked in gold on spine.Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291) and index. Contents:Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The "Cult of sensibility" and the "Romantic child" -- Chapter Two. Blake's Innocence and Experience -- Chapter Three. Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Chapter Four. From Coleridge to Dickens -- Chapter Five. The child in Dickens -- Chapter Six. George Eliot and Maggie Tulliver -- Chapter Seven. Reduction to absurdity -- Chapter Eight. Innocence in Henry James -- Chapter Nine. Mark Twain and Richard Jefferies -- Chapter Ten. Escape -- Chapter Eleven. The end of the Victorian child -- Chapter Twelve. Joyce : Virginia Woolf : D.H. Lawrence -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.Subjects: James, Henry 1843-1916 Characters Children. Blake, William Poetry Criticism. Geschichte 1800-1957.Children in literature.English literature History and criticism. Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique. Children in literature. English literature.Literatur. Kind. EnglischChildren Special subjects English literature Criticism.Children Special subjects American literature Criticism. English literature History and cricitism.Children in literature.English literature History and criticism. Individualism in literature. USA. Englisch. USA. Children in literatureEnglish literature History and criticism. Children Literary depictions.England Literature. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 297. Original publishers binding in red, lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket design features illustrations from classic children's literature. Very good indeed in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket complete and clean with slight fading at spine and two closed tears.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo red clothbound hardback in unclipped dust jacket. 297pp, indexed. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Small pieces missing to top and bottom of upper front dust jacket cover, spine a little worn and faded. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY in Good dust jacket (Shelf 200) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14.5cm, xiv + 297pp. This copy comes from the library of Lewis Carroll scholar Professor Morton N Cohen and has his pencil signature to the ffep. This fascinating book traces the use made of children by writers in their works. Since Lady Macduff's cry to her son on his father's flight "Now, God help thee, poor monkey!" writers have introduced the child to contrast the enormity of man's evil with a standard of innocence. It is only in comparatively modern times, however (from the late eighteenth century onwards) that the child has had any continuous interest for authors, and the book is an analysis of this phenomenon, and an attempt to discover what is being said through the image of the child. Discussing famous children in literature from Rousseau's Emile through Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, Lewis Carroll, J M Barrie and Mark Twain, the brings the story down to post-Freudian novelists such as Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D H Lawrence, to show the use of the child in social criticism and finally the second thoughts prompting a desire to depict the real child in the place of the conventional innocent. Condition: The book is in good sound shape but with some marginal annotations made by Professor Cohen. The dustwrapper is good but rubbed to the edges with some surface abrasion. Signed by notable previous own.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm, square and tight with no snags or splits, just a trifle rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: in decent shape, just slightly rubbed and moderately edge-worn, now protected in a clear, sleeve. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author, inscribed by Peter Coveney to Brynmor Jones and accompanied with a short note to Jones on Coveney's headed notepaper loosely laid in. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. The cloth is a little dusty, the gilt a touch muted. Inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper "To Dr. Brynmor Jones / with all good wishes, / from / Peter Coveney / 21. xi. 57." After a spell as a schoolteacher, Peter Coveney (1924-2007) moved to Hull in 1955 where (as well as Brynmor Jones) he met Philip Larkin, with whom he remained in contact until the poet's died thirty years later. In 1962, Coveney was founding warden of Lincoln Hall at the University of Nottingham and later joined the University's History Department. Larkin's letters to Coveney, as well as letters from Monica Jones to Coveney and his wife, are held at the University of Nottingham (Manuscripts and Special Collections). Sir Brynmor Jones (19031989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.