Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children s Literature, 1918 195

"In Britain, the years after 1918 witnessed an explosion of interest in the pursuit of leisure, which, after the austerity and restrictions of the First World War, was increasingly viewed as a right for all. With limited resources, particularly of space,the provision for, and impact of leisure became highly contested subjects. Focusing on hiking, camping and sailing stories, Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918 - 1950 challenges and explores the popular suggestion that these books were merely escapist and demonstrates the continued importance of maritime Britain in children's literature.Drawing from an extensive range of children's books - from the ephemeral to the well-known novels of Arthur Ransome - this book places children's literature at the forefront of the struggle to shape readers' understanding of the countryside as a place of quietude, whilst rejecting the claims of mass tourism. As such, it situates children's literature at the centre of a range of complex arguments about the politics of leisure, class and national identity. "--

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Hazel Sheeky Bird is an independent researcher based in California, USA. She has published on the subject of escapism in Tolkien's The Hobbit and on the influence of high navalism in British and American naval stories. Her forthcoming publications examine British navalist propaganda and children's culture between 1890 and 1914.

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• Autori: Kenneth A. Loparo, Kenneth A Loparo, H. Sheeky Bird, Hazel Sheeky Bird, Hazel Sheeky Bird
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 24.10.2014
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Tecnica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9781137407429
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40742-9
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Serie: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature; Critical Approaches to Childre; Critical Approaches to Childre; Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Categorie: B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein, popular science, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Technology and Engineering, Culture—Study and teaching, Popular works, Popular Science, general, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Children's Literature