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E. B. White: The Children's Books Hardcover - 1995 - 1st Edition

by Lucien L. Agosta


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Lively and comprehensive analysis of E. B. Whites writings for children, addressing the works themselves, their reception by critics, and Whites views on childrens literature. Beginning with a biographical sketch of White, Agosta looks at the places and events of the authors youth and later life---the wilds of Canada and the Edenic simplicity of Maine---that influenced his creation of Arcadian worlds in his fiction. Agosta also discusses some of Whites theoretical positions as expressed in the essays A Boy I Knew (1940) and Childrens Books (1938), in which White took inventory of a few central concerns that would find their way into his three novels. Agostas portrait of the author and his literary domain is essential reading for student and scholar alike, or for anyone interested in the background of this writer who has so influenced childrens literature.PIM31-MAY-1801

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Lucien L. Agosta's lively and comprehensive analysis of White's writings for children is the first full-length study to address the works themselves, their reception by critics, and White's views on children's literature. Beginning with a biographical sketch of White, Agosta looks at the places and events of the author's youth and later life - the wilds of Canada and the Edenic simplicity of Maine - that influenced his creation of Arcadian worlds in his fiction. Agosta also discusses some of White's theoretical positions as expressed in the essays "A Boy I Knew" (1940) and "Children's Books" (1938), in which White took inventory of a few central concerns that would find their way into his three novels. Agosta's portrait of the author and his literary domain is essential reading for student and scholar alike, or for anyone interested in the background of this writer who has so influenced children's literature over the past half-century.

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  • Title E. B. White: The Children's Books
  • Author Lucien L. Agosta
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 198
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Twayne Publishers
  • Date 1995-10
  • ISBN 9780805746310 / 0805746315
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.78 x 5.84 x 0.86 in (22.30 x 14.83 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Children - Books and reading - United States, Children's stories, American - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95008467
  • Dewey Decimal Code 818.520
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