"Fresh Instruction o'er the Mind": Exploit and Example in Victorian Fiction.

Merchant, Peter

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Publication Date: 1989

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"Fresh Instruction o'er the Mind": Exploit and Example in Victorian Fiction.

Merchant, Peter

Children's Literature in Education, v20 n1 p9-24 Mar 1989

Reviews literature from the first quarter of the nineteenth-century Victorian period. Examines how several Victorian novelists constructed new kinds of heroic stories, combining moral instruction with dynamic storytelling for their young audience. (MG)

Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Ethical Instruction, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Reading Materials, Story Telling, Victorian Literature

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Language: English

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