Academic Calendar 2020/2021 - Children’s Literature Before 1914

ENGL 2446  Children’s Literature Before 1914

Prerequisites:

Three credits of 1000 level English (excluding ENGL 1551 and ENGL 1552).

Antirequisites:

ENGL 2445

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

The course traces the chronological development of literature in English read by children from its beginnings in the seventeenth century with alphabets, primers, and didactic literature, through the poetry and fairy tales of the eighteenth century, to the “Golden Age,” a period beginning in 1865 and ending in 1914.