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Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children´s Poetry
Karen L. Kilcup
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Description for Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children´s Poetry
Paperback. By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape. Editor(s): Kilcup, Karen L.; Sorby, Angela. Num Pages: 592 pages, 62, 62 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 910.
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for children - from famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar figures like Christina Moody, an African American author who published her first book at sixteen. In its excellence, relevance, and abundance, much of this work rivals or surpasses poetry written for adults, yet it has languished - inaccessible and unread - in old periodicals, gift books, and primers. This groundbreaking anthology ... Read more
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for children - from famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar figures like Christina Moody, an African American author who published her first book at sixteen. In its excellence, relevance, and abundance, much of this work rivals or surpasses poetry written for adults, yet it has languished - inaccessible and unread - in old periodicals, gift books, and primers. This groundbreaking anthology ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
910g
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421411408
SKU
V9781421411408
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About Karen L. Kilcup
Karen L. Kilcup is a professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her books include Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924. Angela Sorby is an associate professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Her books include Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the ... Read more
Reviews for Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children´s Poetry
It will indeed be a living canon resonating with readers of all ages. Aside from the book's scholarly value, parents and grandparents will find themselves dipping into it regularly. Library Journal Over the River and Through the Wood provides a glimpse of a time less anxious about the boundary between adulthood and childhood, and draws attention to some wonderful poems. ... Read more