British working-class writing for children : scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century /: scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century. ([2017])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- British working-class writing for children : scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century /: scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- British working-class writing for children : scholarship boys in the mid-twentieth century
- 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;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. … (more)
- 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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