The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction: Volume 1 by J. S. Bratton

By J. S. Bratton

Originally released in 1981. the various classics of children’s literature have been produced within the Victorian interval. yet Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River weren't the books provided to the vast majority of childrens of the time. while writing for kids started to be taken heavily, it used to be now not as an paintings, yet as an tool of ethical suasion, sensible guide, Christian propaganda or social control.


This publication describes and evaluates this physique of literature. It locations the books within the financial and social contexts in their writing and booklet, and considers a few of the such a lot prolific writers intimately. It offers with the tales meant to educate the newly-literate negative their social and non secular classes: sensational romances, stories of event and army glory, by which the lads have been taught the worth of self-help and encouraged with the beliefs of empire; and household novels, meant to supply women a version for the expression of heroism and aspiration in the limited Victorian woman’s world.

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