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Re: Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norrel
« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2004, 10:14:47 PM »
Bruno Bettleheim, The Uses of Enchantment

It's not so much violence--which we really do eclipse the Victorians or anyone else on in graphicness--as it is being able to depict evil without advocating it. The bad guys get it in the end, which resolves the conflict for children. I think he's the one, but I still can't remember quite right.
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