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Before Tom Brown
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Author : Robert J. Kirkpatrick
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-01-01
Before Tom Brown written by Robert J. Kirkpatrick and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre’s continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children’s literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role of the school story in the broader development of the novel as the genre became established through the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded with a whole new perspective on the history of children’s literature.
Before Tom Brown
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Author : Robert J. Kirkpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2024-01-25
Before Tom Brown written by Robert J. Kirkpatrick and has been published by Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre's continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children's literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown's Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role of the school story in the broader development of the novel as the genre became established through the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded with a whole new perspective on the history of children's literature.
Before Tom Brown
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Author : ROBERT. KIRKPATRICK
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
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Tom Brown S School Days
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Author : Thomas Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-19
Tom Brown S School Days written by Thomas Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-19 with categories.
CHAPTER I-THE BROWN FAMILY "I'm the Poet of White Horse Vale, sir,With liberal notions under my cap."-BalladThe Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle, within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the universities. Notwithstanding the well-merited but late fame which has now fallen upon them, any one at all acquainted with the family must feel that much has yet to be written and said before the British nation will be properly sensible of how much of its greatness it owes to the Browns. For centuries, in their quiet, dogged, homespun way, they have been subduing the earth in most English counties, and leaving their mark in American forests and Australian uplands. Wherever the fleets and armies of England have won renown, there stalwart sons of the Browns have done yeomen's work. With the yew bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt-with the brown bill and pike under the brave Lord Willoughby-with culverin and demi-culverin against Spaniards and Dutchmen-with hand-grenade and sabre, and musket and bayonet, under Rodney and St. Vincent, Wolfe and Moore, Nelson and Wellington, they have carried their lives in their hands, getting hard knocks and hard work in plenty-which was on the whole what they looked for, and the best thing for them-and little praise or pudding, which indeed they, and most of us, are better without. Talbots and Stanleys, St. Maurs, and such-like folk, have led armies and made laws time out of mind; but those noble families would be somewhat astounded-if the accounts ever came to be fairly taken-to find how small their work for England has been by the side of that of the Browns.These latter, indeed, have, until the present generation, rarely been sung by poet, or chronicled by sage. They have wanted their sacer vates, having been too solid to rise to the top by themselves, and not having been largely gifted with the talent of catching hold of, and holding on tight to, whatever good things happened to be going-the foundation of the fortunes of so many noble families. But the world goes on its way, and the wheel turns, and the wrongs of the Browns, like other wrongs, seem in a fair way to get righted. And this present writer, having for many years of his life been a devout Brown-worshipper, and, moreover, having the honour of being nearly connected with an eminently respectable branch of the great Brown family, is anxious, so far as in him lies, to help the wheel over, and throw his stone on to the pile.However, gentle reader, or simple reader, whichever you may be, lest you should be led to waste your precious time upon these pages, I make so bold as at once to tell you the sort of folk you'll have to meet and put up with, if you and I are to jog on comfortably together. You shall hear at once what sort of folk the Browns are-at least my branch of them; and then, if you don't like the sort, why, cut the concern at once, and let you and I cry quits before either of us can grumble at the other....
Tom Brown S Schooldays
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Author : Tom Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
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Tom Brown S School Days
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Author : Thomas Hughes
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-02
Tom Brown S School Days written by Thomas Hughes and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Fiction categories.
"Tom Brown's School Days" is a novel by Thomas Hughes, published in1857. The story is set in the 1830s at Rugby School, an English public school. The author attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842, and the novel is mainly based on his adventures there. Tom Brown is mostly based on the author's brother George Hughes. The peak of Tom Brown's school career – a cricket match was also written from the author's own experiences. "Tom Brown's School Days" inspired several film adaptations and started a whole new genre of British literature - British school novels.
Tom Brown S School Days
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Author : Thomas Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Tom Brown S School Days written by Thomas Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Boarding schools categories.
Recounts the adventures of a young English boy at Rugby School in the early nineteenth century.
Tom Brown S Schooldays
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Author : Thomas Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
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Tom Brown S Schooldays
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Author : Thomas Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-06-12
Tom Brown S Schooldays written by Thomas Hughes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-12 with Fiction categories.
A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from other schoolboy adventures. This edition is the only one available, and comes with the outstanding 1869 illustrations by Arthur Hughes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Tom Brown S School Days By An Old Boy T Hughes
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Author : Thomas Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Tom Brown S School Days By An Old Boy T Hughes written by Thomas Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with categories.