British Working-Class Writing for Children: Scholarship Boys in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Author:   Haru Takiuchi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
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9783319856476


Pages:   218
Publication Date:   10 August 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Haru Takiuchi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319856476


ISBN 10:   3319856472
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   10 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Class Culture and Children’s Book Publishing: Leila Berg’s Nippers and Aidan Chambers’ Topliner.- 3. Bad Language or Working-Class Language: Robert Westall’s The Machine-Gunners.- 4. Education and Uncertainty in Aidan Chambers’ Dance on My Grave.- 5. Aidan Chambers’ Breaktime: Class, Anxiety and Home.- 6. Alan Garner’s Red Shift: the Anger of the Scholarship Boy.- 7. Class and Children’s Book Criticism.- 8. The Conclusion of The Owl Service: Critical Ignorance of Class Anger.- 9. Robert Westall’s Fathom Five: the Scholarship Boy and Socialism.- 10. Conclusion: “the Awareness of Standing between Two Cultures”.- Index.

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Haru Takiuchi is Part-Time Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He holds a PhD in Children’s Literature from Newcastle University. 

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