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Carregando... Inventing Wonderland (1995)de Jackie Wullschlager
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Focusing on the lives and work of five writers of the late-19th and early-20th century who are best remembered for their remarkable books for children, this is a study of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne. It examines their personal reasons for writing fantasy works that have found lasting appeal with children and adults, and also the cult of childhood in late-Victorian society that provided the background for their writing. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The five authors featured in this book are still popular, and Wullschlager claims they will always be. Alice in Wonderland, A Book of Nonsense, Peter Pan, Wind in the Willows, Winnie-the-Pooh, and their like, are classics. They have effects on how books for kids are written today.
The books were written and drawn, mostly, by men who did not want to grow up and who liked children more than adults. And, these men seemed, mostly, to be no threat to their child friends. This is a thought hard to grasp by our current-day attitudes. There are interesting ideas about the writer's upbringings, and about their personalities.
There is much in Inventing Wonderland about society and history. There might have been more about publishing business and technology and how books for children became more and more available over time. There could have been more discussion as to why the books were all written by men. But this is still a fascinating study of one kind of literature. ( )