Author: Robert J. Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: 2024-01-25
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0718897382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tom, a student at Rugby School in the time of Thomas Arnold's headmastership, is harassed by the school bully, Flashman, but overcomes his trials. During his school career, Tom does very well academically and on the playing fields.
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2008-06-12
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0199537305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts the adventures of a young English boy at Rugby School in the early nineteenth century.