Course details
Name: ENGL - 255
Title: GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE
Section: 21
Semester: Summer - 2024
Credits: 3
Description:
This course addresses literature for children by 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 realist novel, and other coming-of-age stories. In this reading-intensive short semester, we will engage in examples of these forms, and address several crucial critical issues during this period, including changing ideas about childhood (and parenthood), the impact of industrialization on literary forms and ideas, magazines and mass-market culture, educational reform, and the gendering of children's literature. Along the way, we may also encounter a few major adaptations of Golden Age children's literature in 20th and 21st-century cinema.
Last updated on 2023-11-30 By
Nicosia James (nicosiaj)
Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 6:00 pm To 8:30 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Pre-1900 (1c)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- Class Issues (3d)
Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)
Is course canceled: No