ABSTRACT

Reissuing works originally published between 1981 and 2000 this set offers an outstanding small collection of scholarship. It includes volumes on Victorian fiction for children, boys’ school stories, heroes in children’s literature, boyhood and children’s literature as art and how criticism developed for the genre.

chapter 3|39 pages

The Flowering of the Evangelical Tradition

chapter 4|46 pages

Books for Boys

chapter 5|43 pages

Books for Girls

chapter 6|18 pages

The End of the Century: Change and Decay

chapter |9 pages

Notes and References

chapter |5 pages

Bibliography

chapter |8 pages

Index

chapter |1 pages

Cover

chapter |2 pages

Half Title

chapter |1 pages

Title Page

chapter |1 pages

Copyright Page

chapter |1 pages

Original Title Page

chapter |1 pages

Original Copyright Page

chapter |2 pages

Table of Contents

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|49 pages

Reading for the Empire

chapter 2|40 pages

Schoolboys

chapter 3|34 pages

Island stories

chapter 4|43 pages

A man’s world

chapter 5|53 pages

Empire boys

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

chapter |2 pages

Further Reading

chapter |5 pages

Index

chapter |1 pages

Cover

chapter |2 pages

Half Title

chapter |1 pages

Title Page

chapter |1 pages

Copyright Page

chapter |1 pages

Original Title Page

chapter |1 pages

Original Copyright Page

chapter |2 pages

Table of Contents

chapter |2 pages

Acknowledgments

chapter 1|20 pages

The problem and the approach

chapter 2|26 pages

Precursors of Tom Brown and Eric

chapter 3|36 pages

Tom Brown and Eric

chapter 4|29 pages

The 1860s to the early 1880s

chapter 5|35 pages

Talbot Baines Reed: the genre defined

chapter 6|21 pages

Social structural supports

chapter 7|27 pages

Exemplars of change

chapter 8|47 pages

Change, 1890-1930

chapter 9|18 pages

Conclusions

chapter |11 pages

Bibliography

chapter |5 pages

Index

chapter |1 pages

Cover

chapter |2 pages

Half Title

chapter |1 pages

Title Page

chapter |1 pages

Copyright Page

chapter |1 pages

Original Title Page

chapter |1 pages

Original Copyright Page

chapter |4 pages

Table of Contents

chapter |2 pages

GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE

chapter |4 pages

PREFACE

chapter 1|34 pages

WORLD LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

chapter 4|26 pages

FROM EPIC TO POLYPHONY

chapter 5|32 pages

CHRONOTOPE IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

chapter 6|36 pages

INTERTEXTUALITY IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

chapter 7|18 pages

METAFICTION IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE