Author: Sir Arnold Henry Moore LunnPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Harrovians
Author: Sir Arnold Henry Moore LunnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Harrovian
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Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence
Author: Jenny HoltPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351907662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate. Jenny Holt argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of fictional, biographical, and journalistic work, had a disproportionate role to play in the development of social perceptions of adolescence and in forming ideas of how young people should be educated to become citizens in an age of increasing democracy. With attention to an admirably wide range of popular books as well as examples from the periodical press, Jenny Holt begins with a discussion of the ideas of late-eighteenth-century social radicals, and ends with the First World War, when the more 'serious' public school literature, which sought to involve juvenile readers in complex social and political issues, declined suddenly in popularity. Along the way, Jenny Holt considers the influence of Victorian Evangelical thought, Social Darwinism, and the early-twentieth-century National Efficiency movement on concepts of adolescence. Whether it is shedding new light on well-known texts by Thomas Hughes and Rudyard Kipling, providing a fascinating discussion of works written by boys themselves, or supplying historical context for the development of the concept of adolescence, this book will engage not only scholars of childhood and children's literature but Victorianists and those interested in the history of educational practice.
The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911
Author: Harrow SchoolThe Visitor's Companion to Harrow on the Hill, Etc
Author: Urban District Council (HARROW). Housing CommitteePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The Harrovians
Author: Arnold LunnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781453809488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
First published as a novel in 1914, The Harrovians was based on Arnold Lunn's diary which he kept while he was a boy at Harrow School from 1902 to 1906. The novel was the first critical account of public school life to be published in Britain. The release of the novel had a considerable impact on readers because it provided a realistic and unsettling view of public school life. The novel stood in marked contrast to the rosy corpus of public school fiction and memoirs that had gone before. The Victorian and Edwardian public school system that existed was hitherto generally accepted as an indelible part of the education of an English gentleman. Until the publication of Lunn's novel, there had been no effective criticism of the reasons behind many of its rules and rituals. Lunn's novel broke new ground and helped unleash a wave of criticism aimed at reforming the public school system. The Harrovians--a controversial best-seller when it was first released--is a very engaging and well written story--one that richly deserves to be picked up and enjoyed by a new generation of readers.
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
Author: Tresham GilbeyPublisher:
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Category : Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Harrow Life of Henry Montagu Butler
Author: Edward GrahamPublisher: London : New York : Longmans, Green and Company
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Oppidan
Author: Shane LesliePublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This novel follows a young officer from Gallipoli to France where he is participant in a tragedy.
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