Instructive books for children in Georgian England

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3 mai 2023

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Laurence Talairach, « Instructive books for children in Georgian England », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10670/1.a9ucb5


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‘Goody Two Shoes’ is almost out of print. Mrs Barbauld’s stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery; and the shopman at Newbery’s hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner of a shelf, when Mary asked for them. Mrs B’s and Mrs Trimmer’s nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge, insignificant & vapid as Mrs B’s books convey, it seems, must come to the child in the shape of knowledge… Science has succeeded to poetry ...

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