Reading children/children reading: the problematic nature of eighteenth century children's literature in Locke, Rousseau and Day

Furniss, Tom (2005) Reading children/children reading: the problematic nature of eighteenth century children's literature in Locke, Rousseau and Day. Corvey Women Writers on the Web (CW3), 3. ISSN 1744-9618

Abstract

This essay locates Thomas Day's The History of Sandford and Merton: A Work Intended for the Use of Children (1787-1789) within eighteenth-century debates about childhood and children's literature. It begins by arguing that John Locke, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), both established the principles for a revolution in children's literature and brought into question the very possibility of such a literature.

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Furniss, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-940X

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	1073
  Dates:	Date Event 2005 Published
  Keywords:	english studies, reading, children, English, English literature
  Subjects:	Language and Literature > English Language and Literature > English literature
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Allison Crawford
  Date deposited:	18 May 2006
  Last modified:	22 Jul 2021 00:54
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1073