British working-class writing for children : scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century /: scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Haru Takiuchi.
• Authors: Takiuchi, Haru
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; Scholarship Boy Writers; Theorising Working-Class Literature; Outline; Works Cited; Children's Book Publishing and the Working-Class Culture; 2 Class Culture and Children's Book Publishing: Leila Berg's Nippers and Aidan Chambers' Topliner; Barriers to Publishing Books for Working-Class Children; The Economics of Working-Class Children's Books and Rise of Scholarship Boy Teachers; Being Editors to Change Children's Book Publishing: Leila Berg's Nippers and Aidan Chambers' Topliner; Works Cited. 10 Conclusion: "The Awareness of Standing Between Two Cultures"Works Cited; Index. 3 Bad Language or Working-Class Language: Robert Westall's The Machine GunnersMacmillan Version and Puffin Version; The Removed Swearwords; Works Cited; Scholarship Boy Experiences in Children's Books; 4 Education and Uncertainty in Aidan Chamber's Dance on My Grave; The Education System and the Scholarship Boys; Aidan Chambers: A Scholarship Boy Writer; Limitations of the Education System; Works Cited; 5 Aidan Chambers' Breaktime: Class, Anxiety and Home; Class and Habitus; Lack of Confidence Arising from Cultural Assimilation. Family Troubles: Conflicts Between Working-Class Home and Middle-Class SchoolThe Resolution of Class Tension: Journeying in Breaktime; Ideal of the Scholarship Boy: Reconciliation of Two Classes; Works Cited; 6 Alan Garner's Red Shift: The Anger of the Scholarship Boy; The Time Setting: Latin as a Symbol of the Dominant Culture; Loneliness of the Scholarship Boy: A Soldier for the Dominant Class; The Fault of the Dominant Culture; Voicelessness of the Scholarship Boy; Works Cited; Children's Book Criticism and Scholarship Boys; 7 Class and Children's Book Criticism. Reluctant Readers and Literate Critics: Aidan Chambers and a Review of the Owl ServiceSignal: An Attempt to Change the Field of Children's Book Criticism; Works Cited; 8 The Conclusion of The Owl Service: Critical Ignorance of Class Anger; The Scholarship Boy, Gwyn; Reception History: Silencing of Gwyn's Anger; Works Cited; 9 Robert Westall's Fathom Five: The Scholarship Boy and Socialism; Reception of Fathom Five; Representations of Social Class in Fathom Five; Politics and Class Culture: The Scholarship Boy and Socialism; Works Cited.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9/9282; Literature; Children's literature, English -- History and criticism -- 20th century; Working class authors -- Great Britain; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction; Children's literature, English; Working class authors; Fiction -- General; Literary studies: from c 1900; Fiction & related items; Children's literature; Fiction; Literary Criticism -- Children's Literature; Children's & teenage literature studies; Great Britain; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319553900; 3319553909
• Related ISBNs: 9783319553894; 3319553895
• Notes: Note: Description based on print version record.
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