The Cambridge History of Children's Literature in English: Volume 1

Eugene Giddens is Skinner-Young Professor at Anglia Ruskin University. He is co-author of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass: A Publishing History (2013) and author of Christmas Books for Children (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is general editor of Oxford University Press's The Complete Works of James Shirley (2022). Zoe Jaques is Professor in Children's Literature at the University of Cambridge. She is co-author of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass: A Publishing History (2013) and author of Children's Literature and the Posthuman (2014). She is editor of Oxford University Press's edition of Through the Looking-glass (2022). Louise Joy is Professor of English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (2020) and Literature's Children (2019). She has co-edited Women's Literary Education (2023), The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2018) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; General introduction; Volume introduction; Chronology; 1. Theories of literature for children Louise Joy; 2. Medieval children's literature Seth Leher; 3. 'Makers' and 'Memorialls' of early modern children's literature by Kate Chedgzoy and Edel Lamb; 4. Childhood and age in the eighteenth century Teresa L. Michals; 5. Childishness, innocence and fielding's the tragedy of tragedies Aparna Gollapudi; 6. Education and children's books Jill Shefrin; 7. Print culture Daisy Hay; 8. Children as readers Norma Clarke; 9. Classical tales Geoffrey Miles; 10. Folk and fairy tales Carl Miller; 11. From Aesop's fables to fabulous histories: transformations of the fable Anja Müller; 12. Fantasy David Sandner; 13. Early movable books for children Jacqueline Reid-Walsh; 14. Word and image Andrea Immel; 15. ABCs and primers Elisa Marazzi; 16. Questioning children in the long eighteenth century Katherine Wakely-Mulroney; 17. Song and verse Donelle Ruwe; 18. The evolution of children's moral agency conveyed in verse Katharine Kittredge; 19. The early novel for children Clíona Ó Gallchoir; 20. Miscellanies for the instruction and the entertainment of the rising generation Carme Manuel; 21. The origins of the Juvenile tradition: books written by young authors Laurie Langbauer; 22. Slavery and abolition in children's literature to 1830 Elizabeth A. Dolan; 23. Glory, constraint, nurture, or corruption: faith and conviction in British children's literature Jessica Lim; 24. Entertaining and instructive animals Teresa Grant; 25. Travel writing and adventure literature before 1830 Elizabeth Massa Hoiem; 26. Balls and pincushions: representations of gender in children's literature in the long eighteenth century Michèle Cohen; 27. Sex, violence, and censorship in children's literature and dictionaries Sarah Hoem Iversen; 28. Politics M. O. Grenby; 29. Science and children's literature in the enlightenment Andrew O'Malley; 30. Hymns and songs for children, 1700 to 1830 Alisa Clapp-Itnyre; 31. Networks and dissenting circles Oliver Melvill; Appendix I; Bibliography; Index.