Ebook: British Working-Class Writing for Children : Scholarship Boys in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Author: Haru Takiuchi
- Tags: Children’s literature English -- History and criticism -- 20th century, Working class authors -- Great Britain, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English Irish Scottish Welsh, Children’s literature English, Working class authors, Great Britain
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
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This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard Hoggart termed ‘scholarship boys’: working-class individuals who were educated out of their class through grammar school education. This book highlights theRead more...
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This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children's literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Read more...
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