11 janvier 2013
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David Blamires, « 7. Moral, Didactic and Religious Tales », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.4qe264
From the end of the eighteenth century to at least the middle of the nineteenth the dominant pattern of children’s literature in the British Isles was didactic. Fairytales and traditional chapbook romances were distractingly popular, but the leaders of educational opinion inveighed against them as superstitious, untruthful, pernicious, misleading and immoral. The sober middle classes required their children to be socialized, taught how to behave properly towards other people of whatever statu...