TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,Owen Dudley
TI  - British children's fiction in the Second World War
T2  - Societies at war
SN  - 9780748628728
AV  - PR478.W67 E39 2007
U1  - 028.5094109044 21
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Children
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Enfants
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Books & Reading
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Children's Literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Kinderliteratur
KW  - gnd
KW  - Weltkrieg
KW  - 1939-1945, Motiv
KW  - Jeugdliteratuur
KW  - gtt
KW  - Tweede Wereldoorlog
KW  - Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
KW  - Englisch
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new world. This time was unique for British children - parental controls were often relaxed if not absent, and the radio and reading assumed greater significance for most children than they had in the more structured past or were to do in the more crowded future. Owen Dudley Edwards 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. British literature is placed in a wider context through a consideration of what British writing reached the USA, and vice versa, and also through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown to British children. Questions of leadership, authority, individualism, community, conformity, urban-rural division, ageism, class, race, and gender awareness are explored. In this incredibly broad-ranging book, covering over 100 writers, Owen Dudley Edwards looks at the literary inheritance when the war broke out and asks whether children's literary diet was altered in the war temporarily or permanently. Concerned with the effects of the war as a whole on what children could read during the war and what they made of it, he reveals the implications of this for the world they would come to inhabit
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