Children's Literature and Social Change
Lutterworth Press (Verlag)
978-0-7188-9208-1 (ISBN)
While there are many books about children's literature, few discuss it within its social context or investigate the ways writers reflect or react to change in society. Dennis Butts explores how shifting attitudes and historical upheavals from the 1840s onwards affected and continue to affect books written for younger audiences. Spanning from the industrial revolution to the sexual revolution, this title tells about the impact these external events have had on writers as diverse as moral storyteller Barbara Hofland and the controversial Melvin Burgess. G.A. Henty, Robert Louis Stevenson and even Philip Pullman are included in the discussion, as Butts identifies commonalities between books of the past and present, arguing that trends shown in most of the early children's literature are being displayed again now, albeit in a more subtle manner. This book will appeal to undergraduate students attending complementary courses in children's literature during their degree in English Literature or Cultural Studies. It will also be of use to postgraduate research students working in the field of Children's Literature.
Dennis Butts, a former Chairman of The Children's Books History Society, taught children's literature at Reading University. He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between politics, society and literature, and has written on many aspects of children's books and nineteenth-century literature. He co-edited From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF, also published by The Lutterworth Press.
Introduction; Barbara Hofl and: The Moral Tale and the Industrial Revolution; How Children's Literature Changed in the 1840s; Muscular Christianity and the Adventure Story; Conflicting Loyalties: Ideology and Form in the Tales of G.A.Henty; Rider Haggard and the Pattern of Defeat; Some Questions about Kidnapped: Stevenson and the Act of Union; The Railway Children and the Strange Death of Liberal England; From Evangelism to Feminism: The Works of Amy Le Feuvre; Imperialists of the Air: Flying Stories 1900-1950; The Retreatism of the 1930s: A Few Dissenters; Anarchy, Didacticism and Politics: The 1970s and the 1990s; The Historical Novels of Philip Pullman; Chapter Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.5.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 322 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7188-9208-9 / 0718892089 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7188-9208-1 / 9780718892081 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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