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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Let's see, a summary of all of my complaints: it's elitist and racist to the point of being painful to read and the writing is so over-the-top and ham-fisted that it is almost impossible to bear. If it were just one of these things I could have made it through; it is after all a product of the times it was written in. I tried valiantly but gave up after yet another reference to the "inferiority" of the poor mulatto woman while the bad education the bad rich boy (as opposed to the good rich boy--poor boys are of an inferior nature throughout and are not the heroes) received was beat over my head yet again. I'm glad some of my favourite authors could find something in this dunghill that was worth salvaging, but I couldn't. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More's 'Tawney Rachel,' for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie's 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' a young woman is rewarded for a charitable act with a desirable marriage; and in Edgeworth's 'The Dun,' a wealthy man's selfishness destroys a poor family before he finally sees the error of his ways. This edition offers a selection of five short fictions by More, Opie, and Edgeworth-the best-known writers of the moral tale-prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period. The volume concludes with a variety of background materials that help situate the moral tale in its late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary contexts, including moral tales for children, theories of education, and contemporary reviews. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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