History and the construction of the child in early british children's literature
Auteur :
Horne, Jackie C.
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781409407881
Date de publication :
28 avr. 2011
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
703 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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, this book argues that this shift can be understood by looking to the discipline of history.