ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Maria Edgeworth, Empiricism, Eyelid
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Imagination vs. rationality: journey innocence experience, disobedience (to be managed or to be encouraged?, victorian & edwardian golden age of children"s literature, fantasy, adventure, realism (school, home, social and psychological icrs, children shaped by their environments, psychoanalytic icr: needs to manage fundamental drives and complexes (the cat in the hat, fairy tales not originally written (or for children): oral folklore, charles perrault histoires ou contes du temps pass avec des moralit s (1697, perrault: tales told by governesses and grandmothers to little children (preface, dr. Jacob and wilhelm grimm kinder und hausm rchen (1812 1857: romantic imagination + interest in folklore and folk forms, grimms" stories go through multiple versions, increasingly skewed towards current ideas of suitable children"s literature (snow white, cinderella, romantic + moral didacticism, what is changed/added in the grimms" version, and to what effect, roald dahl"s version: the small girl smiles.
