ENGLISH 505
The Invention of Children's Literature and Childhood:
The Golden Age and Beyond
Dr. Karen Roggenkamp

Texas A&M University, Commerce
 

 
Syllabus & Handouts

Syllabus Fall 2010

Gee Library Print Resources, History of Children's Literature

Electronic Resources
 
Early American Imprints (Gee Library)
 
My Leo (Gateway to eCollege)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


    

   

 


Image: Orbis Sensualium Pictus
Facsimile of 1672 English edition

 

Power Point Slides
History of Early Children's Literature
Eighteenth-Century Didactic Literature
Worlds of Wonder (Alice in Wonderland)
Little Women in America
Golden Age Picture Books
 

 

  Related Links (Optional)


G
ENERAL/HISTORICAL:
Social History of Children's Lit
Picture Book Timeline
World of the Child Exhibition
Water Babies
Early American Imprints Instructional Guide
Hockliffe Project--Early British Children's Books
Early American Children's Reading
Edward Gorey (mock didactic)
Shavit Historical Overview
 
HEINRICH HOFFMANN:
German Language Struwwelpeter
 
JOHN NEWBERY:
Newbery
 
LEWIS CARROLL:
Lewis Carroll Society
Looking for Lewis Carroll
Carroll Scrapbook (Library of Congress)
Robert Sabuda Pop-Up Alice (NPR)
 
MARK TWAIN:
Mark Twain in his Times (UVA)
Twain, American Literature Pages
Twain House, Hartford CT
Twain Papers, Berkeley
 
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT:
Alcott, American Literature Pages
 
HORATIO ALGER:
Alger Collection, N Illinois U
 
BEATRIX POTTER:
World of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter Society
 
J. M. BARRIE:
Barrie Society
Barrie UK
 
LOUISE FITZHUGH:
NPR Audio File: Unapologetically Harriet
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