Author: Edward LearPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Story of the Four Little Children who Went Round the World
Author: Edward LearAn Anatomy of Literary Nonsense
Author: Wim TiggesPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Complete Nonsense Book
Author: Edward LearPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonsense verses, English
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Four Little Children who Went Around the World
Author: Edward LearPublisher: Atheneum
ISBN: 9780027548808
Category : Nonsense literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Four children start around the world on a green-spotted boat and return on the back of a rhinoceros.
The Story of the Four Little Children who Went Round the World
Author: Edward LearPublisher:
ISBN: 9781874687290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
First pub. 1871. Four little children sail round the world and discover an island full of chocolate drops, a country covered with orange trees, and the land of the Blue-Bottle-Fly. 5-8 yrs.
Comparative Children's Literature
Author: Emer O'SullivanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134404859
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period - which set out from the idea of a world republic of childhood - to modern comparative criticism.
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets ... Fourth thousand
Author: Edward LearPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets
Author: Edward LearPublisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet rhymes
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
"The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note." -Edward Lear Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871), like much of Edward Lear's writing, is characterized by a joy of living. In this charming collection of nonsense verse children of all ages can delight in some of Lear's irreverent humor expressed in such classic poems as "The Owl and the Pussycat," "The Jumblies," "Calico Pie," and stories like "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World" and the "History of the Seven Families of the Lake-Popple." In this edition, Lear's delightful text is illustrated with color drawings by the well-known British illustrator Leslie Brooke.
Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain
Author: Ann C. ColleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134766459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.
Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives
Author: Shilpa Daithota BhatPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498546854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The genesis of the history of British colonization in India is often traced to traders, merchants, and the formation of the British East India Company. While this is indisputable, what is ignored is the creation and perpetual fueling of the steady stream of British officers into the Indian economy that happened due to the continuing efforts of British people and society. How did this ensue? In the contemporary world when we talk of the transnational terror networks we are filled with awe when we find children being engineered to the vocation of violence. However, this was true even of the earlier times when writers (albeit politely!) hid the colonial ideology within their literature. The children perhaps were tantalized by the beauties abroad, by the tigers, the rhinos, the ‘native’ Rajas! The use of animal imagery was conspicuous in such literature. This kind of narrative discourse was targeted not only at baby patriots but also at young adults, appealing them with adventurous stories of colonization in India. Through stories, museums, objects; the British children were continuously bombarded with knowledge of the colonies and its alluring bounties. These could be obtained only if the children would study them religiously, internalize the process of travel and looting; and actually reach the destination to perpetuate the imperial agenda. This book encapsulates the agenda of consciously training British children through underscoring resources and fauna in India pursued by the British society in the nineteenth century Victorian England.
