English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Alligator Pie, Baby Boomers, Queensborough Bridge

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2033E
• Professor: Gabrielle Ceraldi

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1865: alice in wonderland (fairy tales, nursery rhymes, cautionary tales) Prior to 1865 most literature for children was moralistic. Caroll showed you could write for children without that agenda. 1900-1911: anne of green gables, peter pan, wind in the willows, secret garden, peter. This playfulness gave way to a loss of innocence. First ww was fought by volunteers who saw the adventure in the war that was conveyed in books. After the (cid:449)ar the(cid:455) (cid:449)ere all disillusio(cid:374)ed (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t the great ad(cid:448)e(cid:374)ture the(cid:455) thought it was going to be. Writing for children became less relevant at this time. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a writer, you needed to be writing for a cynical, disillusioned adult and not necessarily for children. A(cid:374)(cid:374)e of gree(cid:374) ga(cid:271)les (cid:449)as (cid:374)ot see(cid:374) to (cid:271)e a(cid:374) e(cid:454)(cid:272)lusi(cid:448)e girls" (cid:271)ook, men and women all read it too.