Download e-book for kindle: Ethics in British Children's Literature: Unexamined Life by Lisa Sainsbury

By Lisa Sainsbury

that includes shut readings of chosen poetry, visible texts, brief tales and novels released for kids considering the fact that 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down, this is often the 1st broad examine of the character and type of moral discourse in British kid's literature.

Ethics in British kid's Literature explores the level to which modern writing for kids should be thought of philosophical, tackling moral spheres suitable to and bobbing up from books for kids, reminiscent of naughtiness, solid and evil, relations existence, and environmental ethics. carefully attractive with influential ethical philosophers, from Aristotle via Kant and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars Svendsen, this booklet demonstrates the narrative techniques hired to have interaction younger readers as ethical agents.

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