| Description |
xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-180) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Barbara Hofland: the moral tale and the industrial revolution -- 2. How children's literature changed in the 1840s -- 3. Muscular Christianity and the adventure story -- 4. Conflicting loyalities: ideology and form in the tales of G.A. Henty -- 5. Rider Haggard and the pattern of defeat -- 6. Some questions about Kidnapped: Stevenson and the Act of Union --7. The railway children and the strange death of Liberal England -- 8. From evangelism to feminism: the works of Amy Le Feuvre -- 9. Imperialists of the air: flying stories 1900-1950 -- 10. The retreatism of the 1930s: a few dissenters -- 11. Anarchy, didacticism and politics: the 1970s and 1990s -- 12. The historical novels of Philip Pullman. |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Children's literature. |
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Social change in literature.
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Social change in literature. |
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Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara), 1770-1844 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara), 1770-1844. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Pullman, Philip, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pullman, Philip, 1946- |
| ISBN |
9780718892081 |
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0718892089 |
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