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Secret gardens : a study of the golden age of children's literature / Humphrey Carpenter. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, (c)1985.Description: xi, 235 pages, 12. pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780395352939
  • 9780395573747
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR990
  • PR990.C295.S437 1985
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
Preface -- Prologue : The road to Arcadia -- Arrears of destruction -- Parson Lot takes a cold bath : Charles Kingsley and The water babies -- Alice and the mockery of God -- George MacDonald and the tender grandmother -- Louisa Alcott and the happy family -- Arcadians -- Bevis, the pioneer -- Kenneth Grahame and the search for Arcadia -- E. Nesbit : a Victorian in disguise -- Beatrix Potter : the ironist in Arcadia -- wind in the willows -- J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan : "That terrible masterpeice" -- A.A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh : farewell to the enchanted places -- Epilogue : The garden revisited -- Notes and references -- Index.
Subject: Examines the lives and writings of the Golden Age authors--from Alice in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PR990.C37 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001510698

Preface -- Prologue : The road to Arcadia -- Arrears of destruction -- Parson Lot takes a cold bath : Charles Kingsley and The water babies -- Alice and the mockery of God -- George MacDonald and the tender grandmother -- Louisa Alcott and the happy family -- Arcadians -- Bevis, the pioneer -- Kenneth Grahame and the search for Arcadia -- E. Nesbit : a Victorian in disguise -- Beatrix Potter : the ironist in Arcadia -- wind in the willows -- J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan : "That terrible masterpeice" -- A.A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh : farewell to the enchanted places -- Epilogue : The garden revisited -- Notes and references -- Index.

Examines the lives and writings of the Golden Age authors--from Alice in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh.

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