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"Fresh Instruction o'er the Mind": Exploit and Example in Victorian Fiction.
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Merchant, Peter – Children's Literature in Education, 1989
Reviews literature from the first quarter of the nineteenth-century Victorian period. Examines how several Victorian novelists constructed new kinds of heroic stories, combining moral instruction with dynamic storytelling for their young audience. (MG)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education