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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth A. Galway is Associate Professor of English and Board of Governors Research Chair in Children’s Literature and Culture at the University of Lethbridge, where she serves as Co-Director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies. She has published widely on children’s literature and is the author of From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children’s Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity (Routledge, 2008). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter, an M.A. from Durham University, and an Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto. Klappentext Exploring everything from alphabet books for beginning readers, to recruitment materials for high school students, this book examines works from multiple genres and provides a uniquely comprehensive study of transatlantic children's literature produced during the first global war. Zusammenfassung Exploring everything from alphabet books for beginning readers, to recruitment materials for high school students, this book examines works from multiple genres and provides a uniquely comprehensive study of transatlantic children?s literature produced during the first global war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Wartime Tales of Innocence and Experience Chapter One: Family Ties and Family Feuds: National Identities in a Time of War Chapter Two: ‘What Have We Done?’ The Vulnerable and Victimized Child Chapter Three: The Child at Play: Blurring the Boundaries between Children’s Pastimes and the Business of War Chapter Four: Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Thrift-Maker: The Child Contributor on the Home Front Chapter Five: Young Recruiters and Youthful Recruits: Promoting Enlistment and Other Participation on the Frontlines Chapter Six: A Babe in Arms: The Conflicted Figure of the Boy Soldier Chapter Seven: ‘Why We Fought the Hun’: Portraying the German Enemy to Child Readers Conclusion: The Child as the Embodiment of Hope ...

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• Authors: Elizabeth A. Galway
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781032043562
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3204356-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I