British Children''s Fiction in the Second World War

Informationen zum Autor Owen Dudley Edwards is Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history, culture and literature of Ireland, Scotland, and America. Klappentext Edwards discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents; Part One; 1. 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; Part Two; 6. God's Things and Others'; 7. Identity, Authority and Imagination; 8. Gender; 9. Class; 10. Race; Epilogue; Sources, Guides and Regrets; Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Owen Edwards, Owen Dudley Edwards
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.06.2005
• EAN: 9780748616503
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-1650-3
• Seiten: 752
• Serien: Societies at War; Societies at War S; Societies at War
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)