English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alligator Pie, Baby Boomers
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1865: alice in wonderland (fairy tales, nursery rhymes, cautionary tales) Prior to 1865 most literature for children was moralistic. Caroll showed you could write for children without that agenda. 1900-1911: anne of green gables, peter pan, wind in the willows, secret. This playfulness gave way to a loss of innocence. First ww was fought by volunteers who saw the adventure in the war that. After the war they were all disillusioned because it wasn"t the great adventure was conveyed in books they thought it was going to be. Writing for children became less relevant at this time. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a writer, you needed to be writing for a cynical, disillusioned adult and not necessarily for children. Anne of green gables was not seen to be an exclusive girls" book, men and women all read it too.
