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- Title
The Transatlantic Reception of The Chronicles of Narnia and of C. S. Lewis as a Children's Book Author in the 1950s and 1960s, Compared.
- Authors
Derrick, Stephanie L.
- Abstract
This article argues that C. S. Lewis's status as a children's book author, as well as the reception of his Narnia books, should be considered anew in light of the history of children's books in the early and mid-twentieth century. I suggest that the roots of The Chronicles of Narnia lay in part in Lewis's reactions to a perceived neglect of the children's book genre by the literary elite and that differences in the transatlantic reception of these books may be mapped onto the historical particularities of children's books and their gatekeepers in the decades around the series' publication
- Subjects
CHRONICLES of Narnia, The (Book); LEWIS, C. S., 1898-1963; NARNIA (Imaginary place); ENGLISH fantasy fiction; ENGLISH children's stories
- Publication
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0885-0429
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/chq.2019.0002