Owen Dudley Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748616510
- eISBN:
- 9780748653621
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748616510.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter looks at the crisis in the status of children's fiction in Britain during the Second World War. It discusses the compensation of wartime bereavement of deprivation of necessities, and ...
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This chapter looks at the crisis in the status of children's fiction in Britain during the Second World War. It discusses the compensation of wartime bereavement of deprivation of necessities, and observes that most of the revolutionary elements in Britain's popular culture in 1940 had little to no identification with the USSR (or until the Grand Alliance was formed in 1941–2). The chapter also designates Graham's Puffin Story Books as one of the greatest series for children in human history, and as serving as one of Britain's achievements in the Second World War.Less
This chapter looks at the crisis in the status of children's fiction in Britain during the Second World War. It discusses the compensation of wartime bereavement of deprivation of necessities, and observes that most of the revolutionary elements in Britain's popular culture in 1940 had little to no identification with the USSR (or until the Grand Alliance was formed in 1941–2). The chapter also designates Graham's Puffin Story Books as one of the greatest series for children in human history, and as serving as one of Britain's achievements in the Second World War.
Owen Dudley Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748616510
- eISBN:
- 9780748653621
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748616510.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This is a broad-ranging discussion of wartime children's literature and its effects. What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new ...
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This is a broad-ranging discussion of wartime children's literature and its effects. What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new world. In a unique time for British children, parental controls were often relaxed if not absent. Radio and reading assumed greater significance for most children than they had in the more structured past or were to do in the more crowded future. The study is contextualised through a consideration of the British fiction exported to the USA, as well as that imported to the UK and through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown to British children. Questions of leadership, authority, individualism, community, conformity, urban–rural division, ageism, and gender awareness are explored. Covering over one hundred writers, the book looks at the literary inheritance when the war broke out and asks whether children's literary diet was altered in the war temporarily or permanently. Concerned with the effects of the war on what children could read and their interpretation of it, the author reveals the implications of this for the world they would come to inhabit.Less
This is a broad-ranging discussion of wartime children's literature and its effects. What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new world. In a unique time for British children, parental controls were often relaxed if not absent. Radio and reading assumed greater significance for most children than they had in the more structured past or were to do in the more crowded future. The study is contextualised through a consideration of the British fiction exported to the USA, as well as that imported to the UK and through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown to British children. Questions of leadership, authority, individualism, community, conformity, urban–rural division, ageism, and gender awareness are explored. Covering over one hundred writers, the book looks at the literary inheritance when the war broke out and asks whether children's literary diet was altered in the war temporarily or permanently. Concerned with the effects of the war on what children could read and their interpretation of it, the author reveals the implications of this for the world they would come to inhabit.
Owen Dudley Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748616510
- eISBN:
- 9780748653621
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748616510.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses children's fiction during the early years of the twentieth century. It specifically focuses on the works of George Orwell and Frank Richards, who is also known as Charles ...
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This chapter discusses children's fiction during the early years of the twentieth century. It specifically focuses on the works of George Orwell and Frank Richards, who is also known as Charles Harold St John Hamilton.Less
This chapter discusses children's fiction during the early years of the twentieth century. It specifically focuses on the works of George Orwell and Frank Richards, who is also known as Charles Harold St John Hamilton.
Sarah Moss
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076510
- eISBN:
- 9781781702710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076510.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter discusses Maria Edgeworth's writing for children, looking at the centrality of food in the cultural and social constitution of the child. It notes that Edgeworth's children's fiction is ...
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This chapter discusses Maria Edgeworth's writing for children, looking at the centrality of food in the cultural and social constitution of the child. It notes that Edgeworth's children's fiction is seen to inspire the precepts of Malthus and Smith, as well as her suspicions and ambivalence towards the breast and the rest of the maternal body. The chapter also identifies some reasons why food can be particularly important in writing for children.Less
This chapter discusses Maria Edgeworth's writing for children, looking at the centrality of food in the cultural and social constitution of the child. It notes that Edgeworth's children's fiction is seen to inspire the precepts of Malthus and Smith, as well as her suspicions and ambivalence towards the breast and the rest of the maternal body. The chapter also identifies some reasons why food can be particularly important in writing for children.
M. O. Grenby
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199574803
- eISBN:
- 9780191869747
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199574803.003.0027
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
This chapter examines children's and juvenile literature. Many pre-Victorian children did not encounter children's fiction at all. A substantial number, of course, were largely disconnected from ...
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This chapter examines children's and juvenile literature. Many pre-Victorian children did not encounter children's fiction at all. A substantial number, of course, were largely disconnected from literary culture by indigence or illiteracy. However, lots of those young people who did consume books continued to use material designed primarily for adults. What confuses the matter is that the distinction could be very blurred between literature for adults and literature for ‘young gentlemen and ladies’. What would now be called ‘crossover’ works were common: titles originally aimed at adults that were quickly appropriated by or for young readers. By 1820, the novel for children was establishing itself as a distinct entity, but had not quite disconnected itself from the mainstream. Children's fiction was still shadowing the novel for adults, imitating its genres, and sharing its concerns.Less
This chapter examines children's and juvenile literature. Many pre-Victorian children did not encounter children's fiction at all. A substantial number, of course, were largely disconnected from literary culture by indigence or illiteracy. However, lots of those young people who did consume books continued to use material designed primarily for adults. What confuses the matter is that the distinction could be very blurred between literature for adults and literature for ‘young gentlemen and ladies’. What would now be called ‘crossover’ works were common: titles originally aimed at adults that were quickly appropriated by or for young readers. By 1820, the novel for children was establishing itself as a distinct entity, but had not quite disconnected itself from the mainstream. Children's fiction was still shadowing the novel for adults, imitating its genres, and sharing its concerns.
Caroline Levander
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195385342
- eISBN:
- 9780190252779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195385342.003.0019
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter explores the emergence of children's fiction as a genre of American literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it looks at novels that feature ...
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This chapter explores the emergence of children's fiction as a genre of American literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it looks at novels that feature children and explore child psychology, as well as the links between childhood and adulthood. It also examines the reception of both adult and child readers to children's literature, along with the emergence of children as powerful representatives of race relations. Finally, the chapter cites a number of novels with the child at the center, including Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853), Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868) and Little Men (1871), Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Puddn'head Wilson (1894), and Henry James's What Maisie Knew (1897) and The Turn of the Screw (1898).Less
This chapter explores the emergence of children's fiction as a genre of American literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it looks at novels that feature children and explore child psychology, as well as the links between childhood and adulthood. It also examines the reception of both adult and child readers to children's literature, along with the emergence of children as powerful representatives of race relations. Finally, the chapter cites a number of novels with the child at the center, including Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853), Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868) and Little Men (1871), Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Puddn'head Wilson (1894), and Henry James's What Maisie Knew (1897) and The Turn of the Screw (1898).
Carol E. Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452451
- eISBN:
- 9780801470592
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452451.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter focuses on first communion, the rite of the church that marked children's arrival at the age of reason and welcomed them as full members into the community of Christ's church. It ...
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This chapter focuses on first communion, the rite of the church that marked children's arrival at the age of reason and welcomed them as full members into the community of Christ's church. It examines the communion experiences of Léopoldine Hugo, daughter of the writer Victor Hugo, and Marguerite Guyon, heroine of Victorine Monniot's best-selling novel, Le Journal de Marguerite. Léopoldine and Marguerite represent the two poles around which stories of girls' communions circulated. Where the Eucharist prepared Léopoldine for an early death, it invited Marguerite into a world of adventure. This chapter considers children's fiction as a point of access into the cliché of first communion as the most beautiful day of one's life. It also looks at Olga de la Ferronnays and Lina Ravaschieri, who never met on earth but whose lives were imaginatively linked by their pious acceptance of the Eucharist and their early deaths.Less
This chapter focuses on first communion, the rite of the church that marked children's arrival at the age of reason and welcomed them as full members into the community of Christ's church. It examines the communion experiences of Léopoldine Hugo, daughter of the writer Victor Hugo, and Marguerite Guyon, heroine of Victorine Monniot's best-selling novel, Le Journal de Marguerite. Léopoldine and Marguerite represent the two poles around which stories of girls' communions circulated. Where the Eucharist prepared Léopoldine for an early death, it invited Marguerite into a world of adventure. This chapter considers children's fiction as a point of access into the cliché of first communion as the most beautiful day of one's life. It also looks at Olga de la Ferronnays and Lina Ravaschieri, who never met on earth but whose lives were imaginatively linked by their pious acceptance of the Eucharist and their early deaths.
Clare Bradford
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199679775
- eISBN:
- 9780191869778
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0018
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
This chapter examines the history of children's and young adult fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. During the mid-twentieth century, fiction for the young in Australia, ...
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This chapter examines the history of children's and young adult fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. During the mid-twentieth century, fiction for the young in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand did not yet occupy a prominent place. In Australia, most children's fiction was produced and imported by British publishers. In Canada, markets and children's reading practices were dominated by American and (to a lesser extent) British imports until 1975. In Australia and New Zealand, children's novels began to gather strength in the late 1950s and 1960s. The chapter shows how the significance of children's fiction in the project of nation-building became to be recognised as a result of the growth of the educational publishing industry following World War II. It also considers the transnational relationships that pervade children's and young adult novels from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.Less
This chapter examines the history of children's and young adult fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. During the mid-twentieth century, fiction for the young in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand did not yet occupy a prominent place. In Australia, most children's fiction was produced and imported by British publishers. In Canada, markets and children's reading practices were dominated by American and (to a lesser extent) British imports until 1975. In Australia and New Zealand, children's novels began to gather strength in the late 1950s and 1960s. The chapter shows how the significance of children's fiction in the project of nation-building became to be recognised as a result of the growth of the educational publishing industry following World War II. It also considers the transnational relationships that pervade children's and young adult novels from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
Anne Markey
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474408912
- eISBN:
- 9781474445030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408912.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter provides a survey of the range of cultural activity in Ireland during the late decades of the nineteenth century. It points to the importance of Irish writers in defining the Victorian ...
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This chapter provides a survey of the range of cultural activity in Ireland during the late decades of the nineteenth century. It points to the importance of Irish writers in defining the Victorian fin de siècle, and the Irish backgrounds of many famous fin-de-siècle writers, especially women. Attention is given to specific forms of Irish writing, such as Land War fiction and experimental Irish drama and a distinct genre of Irish children’s fiction, as well as activities promoted by Irish revivalists, such as the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, the Feis Coil Association and traditional Celtic games. Throughout this body of work, stress is placed regeneration and a looking to the future, rather than on degeneration and endings.Less
This chapter provides a survey of the range of cultural activity in Ireland during the late decades of the nineteenth century. It points to the importance of Irish writers in defining the Victorian fin de siècle, and the Irish backgrounds of many famous fin-de-siècle writers, especially women. Attention is given to specific forms of Irish writing, such as Land War fiction and experimental Irish drama and a distinct genre of Irish children’s fiction, as well as activities promoted by Irish revivalists, such as the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, the Feis Coil Association and traditional Celtic games. Throughout this body of work, stress is placed regeneration and a looking to the future, rather than on degeneration and endings.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846318344
- eISBN:
- 9781846317798
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317798.001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book explores how the real-world politics of sex, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class struggles, environment and imperialism is represented in science fiction. In 1970 science fiction offered a ...
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This book explores how the real-world politics of sex, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class struggles, environment and imperialism is represented in science fiction. In 1970 science fiction offered a critique of mainstream culture and society from the margins, but became much more associated with synergistically organised multinational corporations a decade later. The book examines the attitudes of successive generations of science fiction writers to science fiction after Apollo and the New Wave, the rise of fantasy and the resurgence of novels centred on swords and planets. It also tackles a range of political issues, from race and environmentalism to feminism, gay rights, and postcolonialism in Vietnam and England. In addition, it looks at science fiction in other areas, including blockbuster films, pseudoscience, children's fiction, horror, architecture and postmodern metafiction.Less
This book explores how the real-world politics of sex, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class struggles, environment and imperialism is represented in science fiction. In 1970 science fiction offered a critique of mainstream culture and society from the margins, but became much more associated with synergistically organised multinational corporations a decade later. The book examines the attitudes of successive generations of science fiction writers to science fiction after Apollo and the New Wave, the rise of fantasy and the resurgence of novels centred on swords and planets. It also tackles a range of political issues, from race and environmentalism to feminism, gay rights, and postcolonialism in Vietnam and England. In addition, it looks at science fiction in other areas, including blockbuster films, pseudoscience, children's fiction, horror, architecture and postmodern metafiction.
