Course details

Name: ENGL - 255

Title: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE

Section: 22

Semester: Summer - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
This course addresses literature for children by British and other anglophone writers between the 1860s and the 1920s. This period has often been called children's literature's "Golden Age," when children's writing deviated from earlier moral and didactic forms to other modes, including fantasy, new fairy tales, adventure stories, animal tales, nonsense writing, domestic fictions modeled on the adult novel, and other coming-of-age stories. We'll read examples of these forms during this short semester, and along the way we'll address several crucial critical issues during this period, including changing ideas about childhood (and parenthood), magazines and mass-market culture, educational reform, and the gendering of children's literature. Along the way, we'll also watch and discuss a few major adaptations of Golden Age children's literature in 20th and 21st-century cinema.
6:00 pm - 8:40 pm
MTWR Dickson Hall 175
May 16, 2023 - Jun 08, 2023

Last updated on 2024-10-08 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 6:00 pm To 8:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)

Is course canceled: No