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SUMMARY:Why Does the Golden Age Matter? - Ashley Wilson\, Faculty of Educa
 tion\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20121030T130000Z
DTEND:20121030T140000Z
UID:TALK41196@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Ting Ding
DESCRIPTION:There is a period in the history of children's literature that
  is referred to as the Golden Age\, because it produced some of the most s
 ignificant texts that modern readers know today\, including Alice in Wonde
 rland (1865)\, Little Women (1868)\, The Secret Garden (1911)\, and Peter 
 Pan (1911). But why are these texts from this time so popular? What about 
 these texts seems to mark the beginning of the modern reader's notion of '
 historical' children's books? In my presentation I will take a close look 
 at why the Golden Age is significant\, especially how the influence of the
  Romantics helped raise the value of childhood\, along with an overarching
  change in society in part due to a growing secularism and a prominent wom
 en's movement. Though the Golden Age occurred in both England and North Am
 erica\, my focus will be on North America\, particularly the United States
 \, as my research is centred there. I will conclude with a brief look at m
 y corpus texts\, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)\, Anne of Green Gables 
 (1908)\, Daddy-Long-Legs (1911)\, and Pollyanna (1913)\, as examples of th
 e change in society\, and therefore\, literature.
LOCATION:Room 2S5\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge
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