ENG 2110 Lecture 2: Children

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 2110
• Professor: Miles Tittle

Document Summary

Puritan children"s literature was intended to provide children with religious and moral education. The most extreme example is james janeway"s a token for children: being an. Exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful deaths of. Several young children (1672) in which multiple deathbed scenes present children who are physically weak but spiritually strong. While the puritans were one of the first groups to create a large body of children"s books, their doctrine of original sin assumed that all children were damned until they were converted to christianity. A less harsh version of puritan theology for children is found in john bunyan"s a. Book for boys and girls (1686), a collection of poems or divine emblems drawn from nature. Bunyan"s religious allegory pilgrim"s progress (1678) was not written specifically for children but was quickly produced in abridged versions for younger readers along with daniel defoe"s robinson crusoe (1719) and jonathan swift"s gulliver"s travels (1726).