Description:For this, the second volume in Milestones in Children's Literature, Victor E. Neuburg has written an admirable study of the famous penny histories or chap books which formed almost the entire reading matter of the poorer people in eighteenth-century England. At a time when children's literature had a strong religious and didactic bias, these little paper-bound books, however crudely produced and illustrated, kept alive traditional tales of romance and adventure, and fed the imagination of you and old alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers Over Two Centuries. To get started finding The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers Over Two Centuries, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
227
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
Release
1969
ISBN
The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers Over Two Centuries
Description: For this, the second volume in Milestones in Children's Literature, Victor E. Neuburg has written an admirable study of the famous penny histories or chap books which formed almost the entire reading matter of the poorer people in eighteenth-century England. At a time when children's literature had a strong religious and didactic bias, these little paper-bound books, however crudely produced and illustrated, kept alive traditional tales of romance and adventure, and fed the imagination of you and old alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers Over Two Centuries. To get started finding The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers Over Two Centuries, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.