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
Date of Ingest
2015-09-25T22:24:11Z
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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