British children's fiction in the Second World War [
A broad-ranging discussion of wartime children's literature and its effects. Covering over 100 writers, this work looks at the literary inheritance when the war broke out and asks whether children's
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press ,
c2007
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| Series: | Societies at war
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Pt. 1. The school of war. Orwell v. Richards: children's fiction to 1940
- 2. Rations and quislings
- 3. Evacuees and gurus
- 4. Women and fathers
- 5. Officials and genteel-men
- 6. pt. 2. Lessons which may have been learned. God's things and others'
- 7. Identity authority and imagination
- 8. Gender
- 9. Class
- 10. Race