what is the historical context behind it?
It began a trend in boys' fiction by using boys as the main characters.
The Coral Island
began a trend in boys' fiction by using boys as the main characters
what is the coral island? It is a novel. who is the author of this novel? It is written by a Scottish author.
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The Coral Island [SEP] Literary and historical context
Published during the "first golden age of children's fiction", "The Coral Island" began a trend in boys' fiction by using boys as the main characters, a device now commonplace in the genre. It preserves, according to literary critic Minnie Singh, the moralizing aspects of didactic texts, but does so (and in this regard it is a "founding text") by the "congruence of subject and implied reader": the story is about boys and written retrospectively as though by a boy, for an audience of boys. According to literary critic Frank Kermode, "The Coral Island" "could be used as a document in the history of ideas".