The Mouse of Feeling. A sentimental Mouse in Dorothy Kilner´s The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (1784)

ČOUPKOVÁ, Eva. The Mouse of Feeling. A sentimental Mouse in Dorothy Kilner´s The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (1784). In Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2014. 2014.

Basic 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

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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

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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.