Moral tales : a selection
Hannah More, Amelia Opie, Maria Edgeworth ; contributing editor, Moral tales: Robin Runia (Xavier University of Louisiana) ; general editors, Broadview anthology of British literature: Joseph Black (University of Massachusetts), Leonard Conolly (Trent University), Kate Flint (University of Southern California), Isobel Grundy (University of Alberta), Don LePan (Broadview Press), Roy Liuzza (University of Tennessee), Jerome J. McGann (University of Virginia), Anne Lake Prescott (Barnard College), Jason Rudy (University of Maryland), Claire Waters (University of California, Davis).
Bok Engelsk 2021 Moral tales (2021),· Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Omfang | 169 sider : illustrasjoner, portrett
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| Opplysninger | "In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More's "Tawney Rachel," for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie's "The Black Velvet Pelisse," a young woman is rewarded for a charitable act with a desirable marriage; and in Edgeworth's "The Dun," a wealthy man's selfishness destroys a poor family before he finally sees the error of his ways. This edition offers a selection of five short fictions by More, Opie, and Edgeworth--the best-known writers of the moral tale--prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period. The volume concludes with a variety of background materials that help situate the moral tale in its late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary contexts, including moral tales for children, theories of education, and contemporary reviews."--
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| Sjanger | Criticism, interpretation, etc. : (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN | 9781554815500
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