British children's fiction in the Second World War

• Main Author: Edwards, Owen Dudley.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
• Series: Societies at war.
• Subjects: Geschichte 1933-1945; Children > Books and reading > History > 20th century. > Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain.; LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.; Jeugdliteratuur.; Tweede Wereldoorlog.; Kinderliteratur.; Weltkrieg (1939-1945, Motiv); Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.; Englisch.; Electronic books.
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The author discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate.

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. The school of war. Orwell v. Richards: children's fiction to 1940
• Rations and quislings
• Evacuees and gurus
• Women and fathers
• Officials and genteel-men
• pt. 2. Lessons which may have been learned. God's things and others'
• Identity, authority and imagination
• Gender
• Class
• Race.