Children’s Literature Research Guide at Harry Ransom
During her time at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, our intern Hannah Neuhauser created this new research guide dedicated the the authors, illustrators, and composers that have delved into literary works for children. Collections including, but not limited to Lewis Carroll, Kate Greenaway, A. A. Milne, Julia Alvarez, Issac Bashevis Singer, Arthur Rackham, and Harvey Schmidt.
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From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum’s children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) has served as the basis for some of the most popular musicals on stage and screen. In this book, musical theater scholar Ryan Bunch draws on his personal experience as an Oz fan to explore how a story that has been hailed as “the American fairy tale” serves as a guide for thinking about the art form of the American musical and how both reveal American identity to be a utopian performance.
Ryan Bunch studies musical theater as well as children’s music, media, literature, and performance cultures. He studied historical musicology at the University of Maryland and is completing a Ph.D. in childhood studies at Rutgers University-Camden. He is an active member of the International Wizard of Oz Club.