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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Bending is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. Stephen Bygrave is a Reader in English at the University of Southampton. Klappentext Among the earliest novels written about children, for children, The History of Sandford and Merton was enormously popular for a century and a half after its first publication in 1783-9. The novel is Enlightenment for beginners, offering a course of education in class, race, and gender to its six year-old protagonists, the robust farm-boy Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton, the spoiled boy from the big house. Sandford and Merton offers entertaining and practical lessons in manners, masculinity, and class politics. This Broadview Edition includes the original illustrations, along with contemporary reviews and other material on childhood by John Locke, Thomas Day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and others. Zusammenfassung A novel that is enlightenment for beginners! offering a course of education in class! race! and gender to its six year-old protagonists! the robust farm-boy Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton! the spoilt boy from the big house. It offers practical lessons in manners! masculinity! and class politics.
