THE IMAGE OF THE CHILD AS A MEANS OF CONSTRUCTING A NEW SOCIAL MYTH: THE PECULIARITIES OF MODELING THE CONCEPT OF "SELF" IN THE CONCEPTUAL SPACE OF THE COLLECTION OF STORIES "A WONDER BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS" BY N. HAWTHORNE

Abstract

The article deals with N. Hawthorne’s adaptation of the antique component for children’s audience. The child’s image exploitation as a mythogenic source was aimed at preventing the split of the nation and connected with the intensification of American feminist and abolitionist movements in the middle of the XIXth century.