Popular Children’s Literature in Britain

by Dennis Butts (Editor), JuliaBriggs (Author), M . O . Grenby (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $199.14

  Analyzes how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate literary success. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, science schoolbooks or Victorian adventures, this volume shows how historical and publishing contexts are important in determining which books will succeed and which will fail.