Moral Tales: A Selection
Title | Moral Tales: A Selection PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Edgeworth |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2021-02-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770488030 |
In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More’s “Tawney Rachel,” for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie’s “The Black Velvet Pelisse,” a young woman is rewarded for a charitable act with a desirable marriage; and in Edgeworth’s “The Dun,” a wealthy man’s selfishness destroys a poor family before he finally sees the error of his ways. This edition offers a selection of five short fictions by More, Opie, and Edgeworth—the best-known writers of the moral tale—prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period. The volume concludes with a variety of background materials that help situate the moral tale in its late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary contexts, including moral tales for children, theories of education, and contemporary reviews.
Select Moral Tales. (The Good Mother.-The Shepherdess of the Alps.-The Happy Divorce.-The Partial Mother.) Translated from the French [of J. F. Marmontel.] By a Lady [Miss R. Roberts].
Title | Select Moral Tales. (The Good Mother.-The Shepherdess of the Alps.-The Happy Divorce.-The Partial Mother.) Translated from the French [of J. F. Marmontel.] By a Lady [Miss R. Roberts]. PDF eBook |
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Pages | 250 |
Release | 1763 |
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Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse. Selected and Revised from the Best Authors
Title | Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse. Selected and Revised from the Best Authors PDF eBook |
Author | Louis François Jauffret |
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Release | 1814 |
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Moral Tales: Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories
Title | Moral Tales: Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Griswold Goodrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1840 |
Genre | Children |
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Moral Tales: Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories
Title | Moral Tales: Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Griswold Goodrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1840 |
Genre | Moral education |
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Moral Tales
Title | Moral Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Griswold Goodrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2019-08-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780461316582 |
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Select Moral Tales
Title | Select Moral Tales PDF eBook |
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Pages | 196 |
Release | 1763 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
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