Author: Agnes StricklandPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children
Author: Agnes StricklandHistorical tales of illustrious British children
Author: Agnes StricklandPublisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature
Author: Jackie C. HornePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317121694
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Jackie C. Horne argues that this shift can be better understood by looking to the discipline of history. Eighteenth-century humanism believed the purpose of history was to teach private and public virtue by creating idealized readers to emulate. Eighteenth-century children's literature, with its impossibly perfect protagonists (and its equally imperfect villains) echoes history's exemplar goals. Exemplar history, however, came under increasing pressure during the period, and the resulting changes in historiographical practice - an increased need for reader engagement and the widening of history's purview to include the morals, manners, and material lives of everyday people - find their mirror in changes in fiction for children. Horne situates hitherto neglected Robinsonades, historical novels, and fictionalized histories within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the period to trace the ways in which idealized characters gradually gave way to protagonists who fostered readers' sympathetic engagement. Horne's study will be of interest to specialists in children's literature, the history of education, and book history.
A Child's Pathway through the History of England. By a Lady. Second edition
Author: LADY.The Gentleman's Magazine
Author: (Un)Making the Monarchy
Author: Anette PankratzPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 382536786X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
‘(Un)Making the Monarchy’ offers a kaleidoscopic view on the British monarchy – an institution that today seems integral, almost inevitable, to the British political system and the very texture of Britishness/Englishness. The contributions in this volume seek to historicise, contextualise, and politicise such dominant myths of the monarchy. They look at the strategies through which monarchical power has been legitimised and naturalised in the texts and practices of (not only) British culture and at the way in which the monarchy has, in turn, been used to legitimise and naturalise other hegemonic structures in society. They also engage with the forms and practices that have sought to contest and subvert monarchical power. Contributors thus tackle the psychological, performative, and political dimensions of monarchical reign, examine supportive as well as critical, satirical, and anti-monarchist representations in literature, theatre, the media, and deal with some of the monarchy’s self-representations through public relations, fashion, and language.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Edward CavePublisher:
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Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Stories of England and her forty counties
Author: Hannah Ransome GeldartPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Library of Universal Knowledge
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description