Telling Tales. The Impact of Germany on English Children’s Books 1780-1918.
Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm,
The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri’s
Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English children’s stories during the 19th century and beyond.
CONTENTS
Introduction; 1. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; 2. A World of Discovery: Joachim Heirich Campe; 3. Elements of Morality: Salzmann and Wollstonecraft; 4. Musäus and the Beginnings of the Fairytale; 5. Discovering Germany; 6. The Swiss Family Robinson; 7. Moral, Didactic and Religious Tales; 8. Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Undine and Sintram; 9. Adelbert von Chamisso’s Peter Schlemihl; 10. The Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm; 11. The Fairytales of Wilhelm Hauff; 12. The Folktale Tradition in Germany; 13. E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker and Mouse King; 14. Lesser Fairytales Authors; 15. Clemens Brentano’s Fairytales; 16. Learning about German History; 17. The Thirty Years War; 18. Historical Tales and Adventure Stories; 19. Picture Books; 20. Sigfried and the Nibelungenlied; 21. The Franco-Prussian War; 22. German Books for Girls; 23. Children’s Books and the First World War; Primary Texts; Select Bibliography; Index.
No. of Pages: 473.
No. of Illustrations: 34.
David Blamires (University of Manchester) is the author of around 100 articles on a variety of German and English topics and of publications including Characterization and Individuality in Wolfram’s ‘Parzival’; David Jones: Artist and Writer; Herzog Ernst and the Otherworld Journey: a Comparative Study; Happily Ever After: Fairytale Books through the Ages; Margaret Pilkington 1891-1974; Fortunatus in his Many English Guises; Robin Hood: a Hero for all Times and The Books of Jonah. He also guest-edited a special number of the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester on Children's Literature.
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