Author: Henry Cadwallader Adams
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Category : Ambition
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: Henry Cadwallader Adams
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Author: Benjamin Watson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810825727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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A surprising number of classic English authors wrote school stories, from Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth through Evelyn Waugh and Stephen Spender. Coverage spans two centuries of fiction set in the endowed private schools called Public Schools in England. Famous works such as Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes and Stalky & Co. by Kipling are described, along with books of accomplished but lesser-known writers such as Charles Turley, Eden Phillpotts, Talbot Baines Reed, and Desmond Coke. In addition to their pure entertainment value, these novels preserve a wealth of cultural information: class attitudes, sexual development, sports history, consciousness of Empire, role of the Established Church, study of the Classics. Biographical sketches are provided for most of the authors.

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Category : Children's periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: P. W. Musgrave
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317365690
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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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.

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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1246

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Author: Finsbury (England). Public Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Author: Public Schools
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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