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Key features of Puritan Literature

- Emphasis on personal perspective on the bible
- Emphasized Bible reading as method to salvation and devotion
- Serious
- Simplistic lifestyle
- Believed in predestined life: Heaven or Hell
- Teach by fear
Example 1 of Puritans

"Milk for Babes" - John Cotton


- Q & A between teacher and student. Seen as a lesson


- Child who's nurtured from the Bible will be saved


- Child has to recite and understand Bible verses--Promotion of personal understanding of the Bible


- Didactic: Can be argued as primer


Key Features of Lyrical Instruction

- Bouncy lines
- Relatable
- Exaggerated
- Attempts to teach children "saving grace"
- Didactic in intent
- Emphasis on salvation and good behaviour

Example 1 of Lyrical Instruction
"Against Idleness and Mischief" - Issac Watts
- Bee is a metaphor for a human worker
- Message: If you don't keep yourself busy, you'll sin
- Doesn't create an installation of fear and instead is positive and believes that the individual can right their wrong
- Words are gentle and constructive

Example 2 of Lyrical Instruction

"Against Quarreling and Fighting" - Issac Watts


- Uses picture as a bad example


- Uses illustrations


- Uses exaggerated statements to make the reader laugh


- Religious throughout the poem. Teach by Christ's example

Key features of Chapbooks
- Didn't focus on teaching morals
- Tried to interest kids with stories about adventure
Key features of Rational Moralists

- Believed that children are innately good
- Teach through entertainment and imagination
- Promote reason and rational thought
- Teachers and parents have a duty to teach the child


- Usually good and bad child

Example 1 of Rational Moralists

"Chapter VII" - Mary Wollstonecraft


- Mrs. Mason teaches Caroline about beauty and how it is a temporary trait. She becomes knowledgeable and that would add to her skill of assets


- Uses stories of her friends, imagery of birds and flowers


- Imaginative


Example 2 of Rational Moralists

"Chapter VIII" - Dorothy Kilner


- Roger Riot was joking around and pushed Jemmy Flint into a well where he died. Use of Patty, Jemmy's sister, served as the consequences of Roger's actions. Mr. Right is an adult figure that strays good and bad


- Jemmy is irresponsible for being careless. Roger is irresponsible for being playful


- Roger learns through example


- Moral: Think before you act

Key features of Sunday School Moralists

- Importance placed on religion
- Instill fear of God


- Method of social control
- Wanted to spread word on God


- Emphasis on: Correction & protection

Example 1 of Sunday School Moralists

"Ruth Ward" - Sarah Trimmer


- Ruth is a bully and unfriendly and other girls are empathetic and forgiving


- Good behaviour of other girls made Ruth good


- Teach through good example


- Role of God: Retribution for Ruth's bad behaviour


- Has redemption and not heavily religious


- Message: Have to be nice to people below you


Key features of Golden Age

- Sole purpose: Entertain
- Simple language and vocabulary
- Poetry was its primary genre
- Child hero
- Confronts problems in society
- Has a narrative


- Adults don't play an important role

Example 1 of Golden Age

"The Ordinary Sweeper" - Elizabeth Turner
- Accidentally ran out of the area when he was playing and is now forced to clean
- Message: Listen to your parents and don't run away from home
- Teach by example

Example 2 of Golden Age

"Careless Maria" - Elizabeth Turner
- Maria is known for being careless because she leaves her toys everywhere, lose clothes, and bothers her friends
- Message: People won't like you if you're dirty. You'll end up affecting people around you. Be neat and focus on how you dress
- Poem doesn't sympathize with Maria and makes her bad and unrelatable

Key features of Fantasy Literature

- Magic and supernatural are outside of our experience with the world
- Secondary world which has to be separate from our world, reader must be able to believe in the second world, and must have its own rules and laws
- Promotion of belief in the secondary world. This is provided by the basis of reality
- Realistic and relatable protagonist
- Confrontation of the ordinary and the fantastic
- Genre is either: Legend, myth or folktale

Example of Fantasy Literature

"Alice in Wonderland" - Lewis Caroll


- Alice is the "every girl". She's given no physical attributes, so she can be any ethnicity or come from any background


- Link with primary and secondary world


- Croquette/croquet


- Forces association with the primary and secondary world


- Makes supernatural


- Normal aspects of croquet: Arches and ball


- Fantastical elements: Hedgehog is a ball


- Keeps rules from the primary world

Key features of Boy's own Adventure

- Audience: Teens and preteen boys


- Evil is inevitable


- Education isn't important


- Adventure drives the story


- Evil is represented by 1 - 3 adults adversaries


- Lots of gorey deaths


- Male protagonist is usually: Middle class, brave and resourceful, they do thigs

Example of Boys own Adventure Literature

"Treasure Island" - Robertson Louis Stevenson


- Intended for younger audience


- Jim has all qualifications of the male protagonist


- Antagonists = Israel Hands and Long John Silver

Key features of Coming of Age Literature

- Audience: Mature


- Focus: Adolescence to adulthood


- Often set in the past


- Themes: Innocence to the world, learn through experience, maturity


- Overcome obstacle sto mature


- Psychological

John Locke

Key concepts:


- Tabla rasa = can mold children


- Early learning


- Believed children were a blank paper - they gain experience from external and internal sources


- Children learn by example over rules


- Believes parents must praise and reward their study


- Believes once a child starts to talk, they should start to read

Rousseau

- Believes that civilization is bad and poisons children and felt that they should be protected


- Mothers are the earliest educators


- Too many mothers don't care for their children


- Believes caretakers should not care for the kid as much


- 3 modes children learn from:


1) Nature (Out of our control)


2) Men (Little in power)


3) Things (Partly in power)


- Purpose of education: From society. Society sets standards on people that teaches them how to live in society


- Method of teaching: Appeal to innate wisdom


- Natural state of child: Born good and without prejudice and sin. People corrupt children