【单选题】
One factor that has been largely ignored by scholars, however, is the {{U}}impetus{{/U}} that was provided by children’s literature. This medium gained great popularity inBritain during the last half of the 18th century and provided direct access to young, impressionable minds.Consequently, children’s literature constituted the perfect vehicle for spreading of humanitarian ideas and played a vital role in creating anti-slavery concerns.
In 1761, John Newberry’s Tom Telescope included the first known reference to the slave trade in children’s literature. Tom, the book’s hero, took issue with a man who was fond of his household pet yet, as a slave merchant, thought "nothing of separating the husband from the wife, the parents from the children". Slavery was not only cruel and oppressive, Tom seemed to be saying, but it was also irrational and contrary to natural law. Written before much of the horrors of theAtlantic slave trade were revealed, Torn Telescope contained an implicit message. Soon afterwards, writers and publishers were in a position to be more explicit. One of the leaders in this movement was the Society of Friends who, in 1787, published Little Truths. Passages in this work directly related conditions aboard slave ships: "children were in the ship, pressed like fishes in barrel ."
Around the turn of the 18th century, blacks were introduced for the first time as main characters in children’s literature.An early example of this device is found in ThomasDay’s immensely popular The History of Sandford and Merton, in which a black beggar miraculously rescues Harry Sandford from a raging bull. Significantly,Day says very little about the institution of slavery itself, but the reader is left with no doubt that it is inhuman and cruel.
While it would be misleading to assume that every children’s book published between 1750 and 1850 contained anti-slavery sentiments, the numbers are significant enough to suggest that they played a vital role in shaping their attitudes toward blacks.At the same time, even when the capabilities of blacks were recognized, there was always a tendency to depict them as different rather than equal. Perhaps unwittingly, children’s literature helped to form a stereotype that — while successfully attacking slavery — also strengthened the 19th centuryEnglishmen’s sense of racial superiority.
B、1700
C．1800
D．1900
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[分析] 细节题型 见第四段第一句：Around the turn of the 18th century, blacks were introduced for the first time as main characters in children’s literature. (大约在18世纪末19世纪初时，黑人第一次被作为主角介绍到儿童文学中来)；18th century指的应是1701—1800年，19th century指的应是1801—1900年，即从18世纪向19世纪转变，那应是1800—1899年才对；因此C为答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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