British children's fiction in the Second World War:
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Main Author: Edwards, Owen Dudley (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2007
Series:Societies at war
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. 1. The school of war. Orwell v. Richards: children's fiction to 1940 -- Rations and quislings -- Evacuees and gurus -- Women and fathers -- Officials and genteel-men -- pt. 2. Lessons which may have been learned. God's things and others' -- Identity, authority and imagination -- Gender -- Class -- Race
The author discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (744 pages)
ISBN:0748616519
074862872X
9780748616510
9780748628728

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