Author: Jefferys TAYLORPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Young Islanders. A Tale of the Last Century
Author: Jefferys TAYLORThe Young Islanders, Or, The School-boy Crusoes
Author: Jefferys TaylorPublisher:
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Category : Robinsonades
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Books for the Young in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Young Islanders: a Tale of the Last Century
Author: Jefferys TAYLORThe young islanders
Author: Jefferys TaylorHistory 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.
English Prose Fiction
Author: St. Louis Mercantile LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Young Student: Or, Ralph and Victor
Author: Madame Guizot (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline)Publisher:
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Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Rural Tales Portraying Social Life
Author: Hannah MorePublisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The two wealthy farmers -- Parley the porter -- All for the best -- Tom White -- Pilgrims -- Valley of tears -- The strait gate and the broad way.
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