Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brown, Penny

Titel

Children of the Revolution - the Making of Young Citizens

Ist Teil von

• Modern & contemporary France, 2006-05, Vol.14 (2), p.205-220

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The child and childhood were vital aspects of the ideology of the French Revolution, and the education of the young in the new ways of thinking was perceived as an urgent ideological enterprise in the 1790s. Little attention has been paid, however, to the strategies employed by writers of books for the young to mould a young and impressionable readership. The decade saw an attempt to revise from the grass roots level children's experience of books and their ways of reading, both for leisure and for educational purposes. This paper considers how this aim evolved in a crucial period in the history of French children's literature with particular reference to the narrative of exemplary lives.