Author: Purdy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
From Brown to Bunter
Author: P. W. Musgrave
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317365682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses early nineteenth-century precursors of the school story – didactic works with such revealing titles as The Parents’ Assistant – and goes on to examine in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days and Farrar’s Eric. The slow development of the genre during the 1860s and 1870s is traced, and its institutionalisation by Talbot Baines Reed in, for example, The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s, is described. Many similar works were subsequently published for adults and adolescents, and the author shows how they differ from the originals in being critical in tone and written to a formula in plot and style. This development is discussed in relation to the changing social structure of Britain up to 1945, by which time to life of the genre was almost ended.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317365682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses early nineteenth-century precursors of the school story – didactic works with such revealing titles as The Parents’ Assistant – and goes on to examine in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days and Farrar’s Eric. The slow development of the genre during the 1860s and 1870s is traced, and its institutionalisation by Talbot Baines Reed in, for example, The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s, is described. Many similar works were subsequently published for adults and adolescents, and the author shows how they differ from the originals in being critical in tone and written to a formula in plot and style. This development is discussed in relation to the changing social structure of Britain up to 1945, by which time to life of the genre was almost ended.
Literature and the Body
Author: Purdy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
From Morality to Mayhem
Author: Julian Lovelock
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0718895401
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the goings-on at such earnest establishments as Tom Brown’s Rugby, St Dominic’s, Greyfriars, the Chalet School, Malory Towers and Linbury Court. In the second part of the twentieth century, with more liberal social attitudes and the advent of secondary education for all, these moral tales lost their appeal and the school story very nearly died out. More recently, however, a new generation of compromised schoolboy and schoolgirl heroes – Pennington, Tyke Tiler, Harry Potter and Millie Roads – have given it a new and challenging relevance. Focusing mainly on novels written for young people, From Morality to Mayhem charts the fall and rise of the school story, from the grim accounts of Victorian times to the magic and mayhem of our own age. In doing so it considers how fictional schools not only reflect but sometimes influence real life. This captivating study will appeal to those interested in children’s literature and education, both students and the general reader, taking us on a not altogether comfortable trip down memory lane.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0718895401
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the goings-on at such earnest establishments as Tom Brown’s Rugby, St Dominic’s, Greyfriars, the Chalet School, Malory Towers and Linbury Court. In the second part of the twentieth century, with more liberal social attitudes and the advent of secondary education for all, these moral tales lost their appeal and the school story very nearly died out. More recently, however, a new generation of compromised schoolboy and schoolgirl heroes – Pennington, Tyke Tiler, Harry Potter and Millie Roads – have given it a new and challenging relevance. Focusing mainly on novels written for young people, From Morality to Mayhem charts the fall and rise of the school story, from the grim accounts of Victorian times to the magic and mayhem of our own age. In doing so it considers how fictional schools not only reflect but sometimes influence real life. This captivating study will appeal to those interested in children’s literature and education, both students and the general reader, taking us on a not altogether comfortable trip down memory lane.
Happiest Days
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719018794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719018794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Textbook of Geology
Author: Philip Lake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology
Author: Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Elements of Geology
Author: Sir Charles Lyell
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
The Pall Mall Budget
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Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Languages : en
Pages : 938
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New International Encyclopedia
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
The New International Encyclopædia
Author: Frank Moore Colby
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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