British working-class writing for children : scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century / Haru Takiuchi

Author:: Takiuchi, Haru
Published:: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Physical Description:: viii, 218 pages ; 22 cm.

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Critical approaches to children's literature

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- pt. I Children's Book Publishing and the Working-Class Culture -- 2.Class Culture and Children's Book Publishing: Leila Berg's Nippers and Aidan Chambers' Topliner -- 3.Bad Language or Working-Class Language: Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners -- pt. II Scholarship Boy Experiences in Children's Books -- 4.Education and Uncertainty in Aidan Chamber's Dance on My Grave -- 5.Aidan Chambers' Breaktime: Class, Anxiety and Home -- 6.Alan Garner's Red Shift: The Anger of the Scholarship Boy -- pt. III Children's Book Criticism and Scholarship Boys -- 7.Class and Children's Book Criticism -- 8.The Conclusion of The Owl Service: Critical Ignorance of Class Anger -- 9.Robert Westall's Fathom Five: The Scholarship Boy and Socialism -- 10.Conclusion: "The Awareness of Standing Between Two Cultures".

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9783319553894
3319553895

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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