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History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (Hardcover, New Ed)
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History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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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.
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