From Brown to Bunter - The Life and Death of the School Story

Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys' school story. It discusses in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days and Farrar's Eric.

List of contents

1. The Problem and the Approach 2. Precursors of Tom Brown and Eric 3. Tom Brown and Eric 4. The 1860s to the Early 1880s 4. Talbot Baines Reed: The Genre Defined 5. Social Structural Supports 6. Exemplars of Change 7. Change, 1890-1930. Conclusions

About the author

P. W. Musgrave

Summary

Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days and Farrar’s Eric.

Product details

• Authors: P W Musgrave, P. W. Musgrave, Musgrave P. W.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2015
• EAN: 9781138946378
• ISBN: 978-1-138-94637-8
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Children's Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form