The Legacy of the Moral Tale

" The Legacy of the Moral Tale made me understand in a way I never had before the form’s complexity and vitality—and, most of all, its centrality to any reading of nineteenth-century British literature. Fleming’s lucid and engaging prose makes reading it a pleasure. A vibrant voice, an original recovery, a dynamic rethinking of the tradition.” —Laurie Langbauer, author of Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, 1850–1930 The moral tale was foremost among the new genres of childre