Owen Dudley Edwards

British Children's Fiction in the Second World War

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Produktbeschreibung

Edwards 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1g
• ISBN-13: 9780748616503
• ISBN-10: 0748616500
• Artikelnr.: 21126800

Autorenporträt

Owen Dudley Edwards is Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history, culture and literature of Ireland, Scotland, and America.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Part One
1. Orwell v. Richards: Children's Fiction to 1940
2. Rations and Quislings
3. Evacuees and Gurus
4. Women and Fathers
5. Officials and Genteel-men
Part Two
6. God's Things and Others'
7. Identity, Authority and Imagination
8. Gender
9. Class
10. Race
Epilogue
Sources, Guides and Regrets
Index