미국 아동청소년문학을 혁신하기 위하여: 호손의 『아이들에게 들려주는 놀라운 이야기』
To revolutionize America’s Juvenile Literature : Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
- 발행
- 2015
- 소속·발행
- 건국대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- 원문등록
- 2015-02-28
- 원문
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개념
키워드
Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, Transcendentalistic childhood, Imagination, Neutral Territory, Wonder, Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, Transcendentalistic childhood, Imagination, Neutral Territory, Wonder
초록
This paper aims to demonstrate why Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls(1851) is a revolutionary work in America’s juvenile literature. Hawthorne began to write juvenile works, publishing “Little Annie’s Ramble” anonymously. He published Grandfather’s Chair Series(1840-41) and Biographical Stories(1842) under his own name successfully, which combined American history with imagination. He could share the childhood concept with the Transcendentalists and be absorbed in the imagination. Having the idea of childhood, he continued to retell classical myths in A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales. In A Wonder Book, he created a lot of bright children including a youth narrator Eustas Bright who could come in and out a neutral territory between the real world and fairy-land to tell stories full of imagination. It remains an important historical text because it contributed to the shift reading culture that allowed children to read with and for pleasure.