Children of the Revolution – the Making of Young Citizens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12281179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penny Brown (0000-0003-2233-7862, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-220 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern & Contemporary France (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-9489 • E-ISSN: 1469-9869 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09639480600667749 |
| OpenAlex | W2021353531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Audience measurement · Ideology · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |