The Republic and Its Children: French Children's Literature, 1855--1900
May, Michele Ann
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Description
Title
The Republic and Its Children: French Children's Literature, 1855--1900
Author(s)
May, Michele Ann
Issue Date
2010
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Micale, Mark S.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, Romance
Language
eng
Abstract
By 1870, specialized publishers produced significant numbers of children's books which made their way into the majority of middle-class French homes. Significantly, as a result of the traumatic events of 1870-1871 -- military defeat by Prussia and the Paris Commune -- when the nation of France suffered military, political, and moral crises, the content of children's literature changed markedly; it became increasingly propagandistic, militaristic and nationalistic, and revanchiste. These elements thus combined with more democratic republican values to create the whole heritage of nineteenth-century French republican political culture.
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