Penny Dreadfuls And Boys Adventures
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Penny Dreadfuls And Boys Adventures
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Author : Elizabeth James
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1998
Penny Dreadfuls And Boys Adventures written by Elizabeth James and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Collections categories.
Penny dreadfuls - sensational stories published in weekly parts - were an important feature of Victorian popular literature. They were often anonymous, and inspired by the melodramas of the day. This is the catalogue of a comprehensive collection bequeathed by music-hall performer Barry Ono.
The Adventures Of Penny Dreadful
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Author : Rachel Redhead
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-10-21
The Adventures Of Penny Dreadful written by Rachel Redhead and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-21 with Fiction categories.
Penny Dreadful is a vampire, of the little known Gemini tribe. She is from the small town of Browman, which is located near to the larger university city of Oxrow, home of Charity Michaels and Libby Hall (of Curse-Breaker fame)... Penny gets involved, often against her best interests, in a number of strange and mysterious events. She just wants to survive school, now a fancy academy, and get a few A levels... Penny's sisters, Alison and Catherine are also drawn into the terrors that inhabit the small English town, will they survive the horror... History seems to want her to play a role in the events to come as many different factions are drawn into the spiralling whirlpool of events that could be another end of the world, which is really awful if it happens on a Tuesday...
Popular Children S Literature In Britain
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Author : Julia Briggs
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Popular Children S Literature In Britain written by Julia Briggs and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences. And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or school stories, these essays show how historical and publishing contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes even sustain - literary success.
Empire Boys Adventures In A Man S World
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Author : Joseph Bristow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-27
Empire Boys Adventures In A Man S World written by Joseph Bristow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting fit, morally upright, and proudly patriotic - these adventurous young men were set forth on imperial missions, civilizing a savage world. Such noble heroes included the strapping lads who brought an end to cannibalism on Ballantyne's "Coral Island" who came into their own in the highly respectable "Boys' Own Paper", and who eventually grew up into the men of Haggard's romances, advancing into the Dark Continent. The author here demonstrates why these young heroes have enjoyed a lasting appeal to readers of children's classics by Stevenson, Kipling and Henty, among many others. He shows why the political intent of many of these stories has been obscured by traditional literary criticism, a form of criticism itself moulded by ideals of empire and ‘Englishness’. Throughout, imperial boyhood is related to wide-ranging debates about culture, literacy, realism and romance. This is a book of interest to students of literature, social history and education.
Representations Of China In British Children S Fiction 1851 1911
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Author : Shih-Wen Chen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Representations Of China In British Children S Fiction 1851 1911 written by Shih-Wen Chen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children’s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children’s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children’s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children’s literature.
Penny Dreadfuls And The Gothic
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Author : Nicole C. Dittmer
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2023-01-15
Penny Dreadfuls And The Gothic written by Nicole C. Dittmer and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-15 with History categories.
• Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic uncovers neglected Gothic texts of the nineteenth century which are crucial in understanding working-class popular culture. • The approach of this study of penny dreadfuls is vast and eclectic, ranging from data-driven publication data to close textual analysis of these texts to adaptations of penny fiction. • This title covers a broad range of penny texts, some of which have never before been written on.
Youth Of Darkest England
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Author : Troy Boone
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-29
Youth Of Darkest England written by Troy Boone and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working-class children into the British imperial enterprise, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class youth resisted a nationalist identification process that tended to eradicate or obfuscate class differences.
Penny Dreadful
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Author : Laurel Snyder
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2011-09-27
Penny Dreadful written by Laurel Snyder and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
From the author of Any Which Wall, comes another story of magic and how it can change you. In Penny Dreadful the magic is small, but the transformation is big. Penelope Grey is a lonely, wealthy child in a nothern big city who, by a twist of fate, becomes Penny: a happy, poor child in the rural south. Rich with unusual and appealing characters, Penny Dreadful asks readers to think about who they really are and what they really want. For fans of Polly Horvath, Lemony Snicket, and Kate diCamillo!
The Empire Strikes Back
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Author : Andrew S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-11
The Empire Strikes Back written by Andrew S. Thompson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with History categories.
`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empire Strikes Back' shows how the dependent states were subsumed and then hit back, affecting in turn England itself.
Companion To Victorian Popular Fiction
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Author : Kevin A. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Companion To Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kevin A. Morrison and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.