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Author:   Julian Lovelock
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Lutterworth Press
Weight:   0.375kg
ISBN:  

9780718895402

ISBN 10:   0718895401
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   25 October 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Referencing Introduction Part I: Victorian School Days Introductory: Education, Evangelism and Empire 1. The Doctor's Story 2. The Moral Story 3. The Popular Story 4. The Imperial Story Part II: A Sense of Endings Introductory: Decline and Fall 5. The Popular School Story 6. The Schoolboy's Story 7. The Preparatory School Story 8. The Anti-School Story Part III: Girls' Schools and their Stories Introductory: Morals, Manners and Mediocrity 9. The Girls' School Story 10. The Anti-Soppist Story 11. The Sunny Story 12. The Twins' Story Part IV: The School Story Revived Introductory: Magic and Mayhem 13. The Secondary School Story 14. The Combined School Story 15. The Magic Story 16. The Subversive School Story Afterword Bibliography Index

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Julian Lovelock explores the oeuvre of archetypal school stories - exquisitions on bravery, honour, loyalty and friendship played out against the mise-en-scene of housematches, cross-country runs, midnight feasts, platitudinous assemblies, and school trips - often with alarming consequences. Halcyon days for some, emotionally crippling for others - Lovelock's book is a good place to start if you want to understand the British obsession with public schools and class. Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, Headmaster of Stowe Julian Lovelock's fine new study of the English school story fills a distinct gap in the critical history of children's literature. Lovelock's range impresses as much as his critical precision: this detailed survey covers about a century and a half of the stories many Anglophone readers will have grown up with, but which have not always received the scholarly or imaginative interpretation they deserve. It's great to see recent authors like Andy Mulligan included in the roll call, along with more usual suspects from Thomas Hughes to Angela Brazil. Julian Lovelock tackles this neglected canon with aplomb, acumen, and evident enjoyment. Dr John Drew, Professor of English Literature, University of Buckingham

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Julian Lovelock has spent almost all his life in education - as schoolboy, student, teacher and, for twenty-five years, headmaster. More recently, he lectured in English Literature at the University of Buckingham, where he became Dean of Arts and Languages and Pro Vice-Chancellor. His Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome, published by Lutterworth in 2016, has been widely praised.

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