Category Archives: General

Aspects of the Victorian Book

Posted on November 17, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Aspects of the Victorian book, at the British Library Lear only appears in the “Illustration” section with the Javan Squirrel, but the whole exhibition provides interesting background on the production and publishing of books in the 19th century.

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Child Psychology and Nonsense

Posted on November 4, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

G.K. Chesterton, “Child Psychology and Nonsense”, Illustrated London News, October 15, 1921.For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery … Continue reading →

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Just So Stories

Posted on October 27, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Classic Review – Just So Stories I t was only a century ago, as everybody remembers, that literary sucklings were nurtured on the Bible, Pilgrim’s Progress, Paradise Lost, and Fox’s Book of Martyrs. This was not in all respects an … Continue reading →

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Children's Literature

Posted on September 27, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Children’s Literature Again great links and bibliographies from the same author.

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Social history of Children's Literature

Posted on September 27, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Social history of Children’s Literature edited by Kay E. VandergriftA great collection of links and bibliographies on children’s literature, though I have not been able to find any reference to E. Lear.

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Devices and desires

Posted on August 21, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Devices and desires Tennessee Williams once said that his plays were built on the wreckage of the American family. This is true, of course – the same could be said of Theodore Dreiser’s immensely gloomy novels – and yet the … Continue reading →

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John Gould (1841-1881)

Posted on August 19, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

John Gould (1841-1881) John Gould (1804-1881) was the most prolific artist and publisher of ornithological subjects of all time. In nineteenth century Europe his name was as well known as Audubon’s was here in North America. Unlike Audubon, whose life’s … Continue reading →

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Land of make-believe

Posted on August 11, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Land of make-believe Eggs on legs and free booze: Marilyn Corrie enters a medieval fantasy in Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life by Herman PleijGuardian Unlimited Books

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Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschlager

Posted on August 11, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Biography choice: Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschlager Edward Lear lived a solitary life, preferring children to adults as an escape from his homosexuality. Lear�s attitude to children is presented as being the kindest, his nonsense limericks having none of the … Continue reading →

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Twentieth-Century American Children's Literature

Posted on August 2, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Twentieth-Century American Children’s Literature

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