Detailed Information on Publication Record
2014
The Mouse of Feeling. A sentimental Mouse in Dorothy Kilner´s The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (1784)
ČOUPKOVÁ, EvaBasic information
Original name
The Mouse of Feeling. A sentimental Mouse in Dorothy Kilner´s The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (1784)
Authors
ČOUPKOVÁ, Eva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2014, 2014
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14640/14:00079068
Organization unit
Language Centre
Keywords in English
Children's Literature; sentimentality; British Literature; Kilner
Změněno: 24/4/2015 10:10, Mgr. Eva Čoupková, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
Abstract: The paper discusses themes and topics present in one of the best-known works of children’s literature that appeared in the second half of the Eighteenth Century in Britain, and also one of the first which employs an animal narrator. In this episodic story, the mouse, Nimble, and his brothers travel through various households experiencing a series of misfortunes while interacting with child and adult inhabitants of the homes, overhearing their conversations, and making moral judgments on them. However, the novel cannot be viewed only as an instructional, didactic text for children; it also reflects the tendencies seen in the British literature of the period, especially the influences of sentimentalism and the popularity of picaresque novels, as well as the emerging interests in animal rights.