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# New Anthology
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4970/
- Published: 2006-08-28T12:43:49.000Z
- Updated: 2006-08-28T12:43:49.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

*[The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393327760/thedailyeudem-20?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*: I wasn't even aware of this anthology. Now I'm aware of it, and I don't want it. [Link to unfavorable review](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676806/posts?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> The editors of the anthology acknowledge in passing their debt to Locke and Rousseau–who in a sense created our modern understanding of childhood, permanently influencing all subsequent children's literature. The editors, however, wish to promote a revolution of their own: a new, more candid, and frankly, more nihilistic corpus. Despite heralding children's literature as "life-enhancing" and "life-changing," the Norton editors aim in fact to dampen children's enchantment with the world, forcing them to acquiesce to the grim realities and multicultural obsessions of contemporary adults.