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The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Three

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 2 of the blog series. Maria Edgeworth’s Lucky Orphans As the century moved forward, the belief in the rags-to-riches narratives gradually started to give way to the significance of retaining social hierarchies,…

Teri Williams
January 7, 2021

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Two

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 1 of this blog series. Much Ado about Witchcraft in The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes Often cited as the earliest example of a children’s novel, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes[i],…

Teri Williams
January 6, 2021

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Taking into account their concern about the moralistic upbringing of the children of a book-buying middle class, it should come as no surprise that the ‘irrational’ components of fairy stories were frowned upon by…

Teri Williams
January 5, 2021

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Three

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Two

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

Sudden Changes in Global Order — From Ancient to Early Modern Iran and Beyond

How did the revenue men once invest in slavery?

Structural Bias, Education Reform, and Victorian Women’s Poetry

Henry Somers-Hall interviewed by Brent Adkins: Reading A Thousand Plateaus

From Multiple Possible Worlds to Fission-Fusion Experience