Honours Specialization - Children’s Literature Before 1914

ENGL 2446  Children’s Literature Before 1914

Prerequisites:

Three credits of 1000 level ENGL (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502) or any 18 credits completed (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502, ENGL 2001, ENGL 2011).

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.