ENG 2412 - Children's Literature Survey

3 cr

This course traces the development of a professional literature for children through its inception in the nineteenth century and its proliferation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In order to examine trends in children's literature, the course begins with such writers as Carroll and Stevenson before sampling such subsequent authors as Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, and Maurice Sendak (and a variety of other more contemporary authors).
Prerequisite: ENG 1061 and at least sophomore standing. Highly recommended: ENG 1310 .
Spring, odd years