Author: Kathryn A CastlePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526162962
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Britannia's children
Author: Kathryn A CastlePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526162962
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Britannia's Children
Author: Eric RichardsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852854416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times
Children's Literature and British Identity
Author: Rebecca KnuthPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810885174
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
For more than 250 years, English children’s literature has transmitted values to the next generation. The stories convey to children what they should identify with and aspire to, even as notions of “goodness” change over time. Through reading, children absorb an ethos of Englishness that grounds personal identity and underpins national consciousness. Such authors as Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling have entertained, motivated, confronted social wrongs, and transmitted cultural mores in their works—functions previously associated with folklore. Their stories form a new folklore tradition that provides social glue and supports a love of England and English values. In Children’s Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation, Rebecca Knuth follows the development of the genre, focusing on how stories inspire children to adhere to the morals of society. This book examines how this tradition came to fruition, exploring the works of several authors, including: Robert Baden-Powell Robert Ballantyne J. M. Barrie Enid Blyton Angela Brazil Frances Hodgson Burnett Randolph Caldecott Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Maria Edgeworth Kenneth Grahame Kate Greenaway G. A. Henty Thomas Hughes Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling C.S. Lewis A. A. Milne Hannah More E. Nesbit John Newbery George Orwell Beatrix Potter Arthur Ransome Frank Richards J. K. Rowling Anna Sewell Robert Louis Stevenson J. R. R. Tolkien P. L. Travers Sarah Trimmer Charlotte Yonge Evaluating the connection between children’s literature and the dissemination and formation of identity, this book will appeal to both general readers and academics who are interested in librarianship, English culture, and children’s literature.
Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911
Author: Shih-Wen ChenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317066049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children’s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children’s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children’s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children’s literature.
Britannias Answer and Other War Poems
Author: Lauchlan MacLean WattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Mother Britannia and Her Boys and Girls; Or, The Elementary Education Question in a Nutshell
Author: Mother BritanniaMother Britannia and her Boys and Girls; or, the Elementary education question in a nutshell
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Elementary
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Rule Britannia
Author: Danny DorlingPublisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1785904566
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.
Pearson's Magazine
Author: Britannia's Box of Soldiers
Author: William R. SnowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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