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Reading Novels for Moral Instruction

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2014

“Tom Jones” teaches how to raise adolescents. And how not to.

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Moral Verse for Bad Little Children

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2009

When I was a child, I was a great fan of the tongue-in-cheek “cautionary verses” of English poet Hilaire Belloc.  I have written in the past about how, in the Alice books, Lewis Carroll took off after those heavy-handed Victorian moralists who tried to scare children into good behavior.  Belloc did more of the same, […]

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