ENGLIT 2800 - Children's Literature

Institution:

University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

Subject:

English Literature

Description:

This seminar will examine the constitution of the field of children’s literature studies in relation to the production of novelistic writing for young people in a range of historical and critical contexts. We will consider how the concept of a literature uniquely “for” children was instituted in the writings of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reviewers, historians of literature, and cultural critics. We will then examine a range of more recent theoretical, critical, and historical works that have influenced the study of children’s literature within the field of English studies. Finally, we will examine major British and American fictions by such authors as Hughes, Carroll, Stretton, Alger, Alcott, Haggard, Kipling, and London, along with theoretically and historically informed critical essays on these works.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pitt.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 624-4141

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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