1st Edition

The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction

By J. S. Bratton Copyright 1981
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1981. Many of the classics of children’s literature were produced in the Victorian period. But Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River were not the books offered to the majority of children of the time. When writing for children began to be taken seriously, it was not as an art, but as an instrument of moral suasion, practical instruction, Christian... Read more

1. Introduction: Educational Background and Critical Approaches 2. The Development of Juvenile Publishing and Children’s Fiction, 1800-1850 3. The Flowering of the Evangelical Tradition 4. Books for Boys 5. Books for Girls 6. The End of the Century: Change and Decay

Biography

J.S. Bratton