근대화와 영국 아동문학: 문학적 관점에서 아동문학 발전의 역사적 조건 재해석

Abstract

The Victorian era was a golden age for children’s literature. Changes in the social and historical conditions brought positive change to it. The French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, modernization, individualism, family ideology, educational system, Romanticism, and the advent of child reader are very important points to children’s literature. In the early stages of a printed literature, there are few or no books published specifically for children. Perhaps a few books are intended for broadly educational purposes, such as courtesy or behaviour books. In the situation children, as they learn to read, long for ‘their’ books which appeal to them. Gradually stories written specially for children being to appear and eventually demands for books to meet a variety of interests and special needs emerge. The economic and social transformation is closely connected with children’s literature. It has important social and literary functions, and it offers social and literary meaning as well as enchantment. The printed works produced ostensibly to give children’s spontaneous pleasure and not primarily not to teach them, nor solely to make them good. Through these views, we need to enlarge the children’s literature as a social and historical products.