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From Morality to Mayhem

Autor Julian Lovelock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2017
The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the goings-on at such earnest establishments as Tom Brown's Rugby, St Dominic's, Greyfriars, the Chalet School, Malory Towers and Linbury Court. In the second part of the twentieth century, with more liberal social attitudes and the advent of secondary education for all, these moral tales lost their appeal and the school story very nearly died out. More recently, however, a new generation of compromised schoolboy and schoolgirl heroes - Pennington, Tyke Tiler, Harry Potter and Millie Roads - have given it a new and challenging relevance. Focusing mainly on novels written for young people, From Morality to Mayhem charts the fall and rise of the school story, from the grim accounts of Victorian times to the magic and mayhem of our own age. In doing so it considers how fictional schools not only reflect but sometimes influence real life. This captivating study will appeal to those interested in children's literature and education, both students and the general reader, taking us on a not altogether comfortable trip down memory lane.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780718895402
ISBN-10: 0718895401
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: The Lutterworth Press

Notă biografică

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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An engaging literary examination of the school story, exploring the development and social significance of the genre from Tom Brown to Harry Potter.