CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: A READER’S HISTORY, FROM AESOP TO HARRY POTTER
Book ID/图书代码： 13560016B90953
English Summary/英文概要： Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.
The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： ★芝加哥大学出版社出版的儿童文学史经典教材 ；
★荣获2009年获美国国家图书评论奖；
★2010年获杜鲁门·卡波特文学批评奖；
★文学、历史和哲学的交叉视角，对大量经典儿童读物的独到分析，展现从古典时期、中世纪到当代的两千多年的儿童阅读和教育传统。
★如何界定“儿童文学”？《伊索寓言》为何在古典时期、中世纪乃至现在一直备受推崇？清教文化、洛克以及达尔文对儿童文学的发展有着怎样的影响？男孩读物与女孩书籍各自的书写传统是什么？文学阅读塑造了儿童吗？这部颇有影响的儿童文学史学术专著，将逐一解开上述谜题。从古希腊罗马的正统权威、中世纪的寓言遗俗、清教的字母教育传统、维多利亚时代的想象天地，直到当代儿童文学的新发展趋势，本书详细梳理了两千多年的儿童阅读和教育传统，呈现了从古典到当代的西方对儿童、儿童读物以及阅读本身的思考。作者视野宏阔，以文学、历史、哲学与社会政治的交叉视角，对众多儿童文学大师的经典作品作出独到的分析，展现了儿童文学丰富多样的面貌。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：“Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss, Times Literary Supplement
About the Author/作者介绍： ★塞思·勒若（Seth Lerer，1955— ）：塞思·勒若美国加州大学圣迭戈分校杰出的文学教授，1981年获得芝加哥大学哲学博士学位，长期专注于文学史、语言史及儿童文学的研究。他于1981—1990年执教普林斯顿大学，1991—2008年执教斯坦福大学，2009—2014年担任加州大学圣迭戈分校艺术与人文学院院长。已出版的学术著作有《波爱修斯与对话》、《盎格鲁-撒克逊文学的遗产与影响》、《乔叟及其读者》、《谬误和学术》等
Seth Lerer is dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, and the editor of several collections, including The Yale Companion to Chaucer.
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