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.
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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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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14640/14:00079068
Organization unit Language Centre
Keywords in English Children's Literature; sentimentality; British Literature; Kilner
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Eva Čoupková, Ph.D., učo 25930. Changed: 24/4/2015 10:10.
Abstract
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.
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