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From morality to mayhem : the fall and rise of the English school story /
The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the goings-on at such earnest establishments as Tom Brown's Rugby, St Dominic's, Greyfriars, t...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
The Lutterworth Press,
2018.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Referencing
- Introduction
- Part I: Victorian School Days: Introductory: Education, Evangelism and Empire
- 1. The Doctor's Story: Thomas Hughes
- Tom Brown's School Days (1857)
- 2. The Moral Story: F.W. Farrar
- Eric, or, Little by Little (1858)
- 3. The Popular Story: Talbot Baines Reed
- The Fifth Form at St Dominic's (1887)
- 4. The Imperial Story: Rudyard Kipling
- Stalky & amp
- Co. (1899)
- Part II: A Sense of Endings: Introductory: Decline and Fall
- 5. The Popular School Story: Frank Richards
- 'The Making of Harry Wharton' (1908) and Billy Bunter at Greyfriars School (1947)
- 6. The Schoolboy's Story: Alec Waugh
- The Loom of Youth (1917)
- 7. The Preparatory School Story: Anthony Buckeridge
- Jennings Goes to School (1950) and Jennings at Large (1977)
- William Mayne
- A Swarm in May (1955)
- 8. The Anti-School Story: William Golding
- Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Giles Cooper
- Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1958)
- Part III: Girls' Schools and their Stories: Introductory: Morals, Manners and Mediocrity
- 9. The Girls' School Story: L.T. Meade
- A World of Girls (1886)
- Angela Brazil
- The Fortunes of Philippa (1906) and A Patriotic Schoolgirl (1918)
- 10. The Anti-Soppist Story: Dorita Fairlie Bruce
- Dimsie Moves Up (1921)
- Josephine Elder
- Evelyn Finds Herself (1929)
- 11. The Sunny Story: Enid Blyton
- The Naughtiest Girl in the School (1940), The Twins at St Clare's (1941) and First Term at Malory Towers (1946)
- 12. The Twins' Story: Antonia Forest
- Autumn Term (1948)
- Part IV: The School Story Revived: Introductory: Magic and Mayhem
- 13. The Secondary School Story: Geoffrey Trease
- No Boats on Bannermere (1949)
- Anthony Buckeridge
- Rex Milligan's Busy Term (1953)
- K.M. Peyton
- Pennington's Seventeenth Summer (1970).
- 14. The Combined School Story: Gene Kemp
- The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (1977), Gowie Corby Plays Chicken (1979) and five other novels
- 15. The Magic Story: Jill Murphy
- The Worst Witch (1974)
- J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
- 16. The Subversive School Story: Andy Mulligan
- Ribblestrop (2009)
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index.