History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

by JackieC.Horne (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $156.60

  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.