Overview
- Presents the culmination of a two-year project on children’s books in Ireland, bringing together books published across five centuries
- Contributes to the critical resources available on children’s literature in collections, and specifically, in terms of collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies
- Offers a complex view of children’s literature collections by showing the varied approaches to researching collections.
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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Table of contents(13 chapters)
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History and Canonicity
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Author and Text
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Ideals and Institutions
About this book
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.
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Editors and Affiliations
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School of English, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Keith O'Sullivan
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School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Pádraic Whyte
About the editors
Keith O’Sullivan is Lecturer in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. He recently co-edited Children’s Literature and New York City (2014) and Irish Children’s Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (2011). In 2013, he was co-recipient of a major Government of Ireland/Irish Research Council award to establish a National Collection of Children’s Books.
Pádraic Whyte is Assistant Professor of English and a director of the master’s programme in Children's Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Irish Childhoods (2011) and co-editor of Children's Literature and New York City (2014). He was co-recipient of a major Irish Research Council/Government of Ireland award to establish a National Collection of Children’s Book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children's Literature Collections
Book Subtitle: Approaches to Research
Editors: Keith O'Sullivan, Pádraic Whyte
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59757-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60311-1Published: 20 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93406-5Published: 29 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59757-1Published: 19 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 261
Topics: Children's Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History