Wooden W.W. Children’s Literature of the English Renaissance

The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 181 p. — ISBN: 9780813155487Warren W. Wooden’s pioneering studies of early examples of children’s literature throw new light on many accepted works of the English Renaissance period. In consequence, they appear more complex, significant, and successful than hitherto realized. In these nine essays, Wooden traces the roots of English children’s literature in the Renaissance beginning with the first printed books of Caxton and ranging through the work of John Bunyan. Wooden examines a number of works and authors from this period of two centuries—some from the standard canon, others obscure or neglected—while addressing questions about the early development of children’s literature.From Caxton to Comenius: The Origins of Children's Literature
Childermass Sermons in Late Medieval England
Childhood and Death A Reading of John Skelton's Philip Sparrow
The Topos of Childhood in Marian England
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Child Reader
Michael Drayton's Nymphidia: A Children's ClassicJ
A Child's Garden of Sprites: English Renaissance Fairy Poetry
The Water-Poet: A Pioneer of Children's Literature
Nature Moralized John Bunyan's Country Rhimes for Children
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