Article

Name: Traveler children in Children’s Literature in the First Half of the 19th Century: Characters and Routes

Authors: Anna A. Dimianenko

The Research Center of Children’s Literature, Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) RAS, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

In the section Russian Children’s Literature: Plots and Gender

Abstract: The article discusses the travel of children in fiction for children, published in the first half of the 19th century. The article attempts to classify travel plots in children’s literature, analyzes the tradition of introducing travel literature and routes used by authors to describe travel in the reading circle of children. Important conclusions of the study are the analysis of the behavior of the characters and the functioning of the prescribed social norms in the space of the described journey. Sources for analysis were works written for children by A. O. Ishimova (“Vacations of 1844”; “Petrusha traveler”), A. P. Zontag (“The Lost Child”) K. Mestra (“The Young Siberian”), V. V. Lvov (“Gray armiak”, “Seryozha stepchild”), M. Gladkova (“A fifteen-day journey written by a fifteen-year-old, to please her parent, and dedicated to a fifteen-year-old friend” and the anonymous story “Little travelers or trials of youth”.

Keywords: children’s literature of the first half of the 19th century, travel literature, travelogue

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