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15th - 21st Century Child. Lit. History

Terms in this set (17)

Oral Tradition
stories passed down through generations by word of mouth
1484 Aesop's Fables
The very first printed storybook for children. Printed by W Caxton on Gutenberg's press
The Visible World
First picture book whose introduction and content is designed to entertain children
1658
The year the first picture book (written with the purpose to entertain children) was published.
JonAmos Comenius
Wrote the first picture books that was designed to entertain and instruct bored school children
John Bunyan's "Pilgrim Progress"
17th Century Literature- 1678
John Locke's "Thoughts Concerning Education"
17th Century literature- 1693
Charles Perrault's "Tales of Mother Goose"
17th Century literature- 1697
Robinsonnade
a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story"
Romanticism
Rise of the Middle Class
Robinsonnade
Made the 18th Century just as important as the 17th Century (3 Terms)
Victorian or Golden Age
Another name for the 19th Century
Grimm Brothers "Household and Nursery Tales"
Important collection of folktales that were published in 1812
Fantasy
Became known as a genre in 1865
Treasure Island
Adventurous stories continued with the publication of this book in 1883 by Robert Stevenson
Domestic
Animal
Picture
Type of stories being written in the 19th Century
Caldecott
Greenaway
Evans
Crane
Four influential and famous illustraters
Realism
Modernism
Two new genres that appeared in the 20th Century
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