The World of the Edwardian Child
Author: Michael Tracy
Publisher: MICHAEL TRACY
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 2960004752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Tracy
Publisher: MICHAEL TRACY
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 2960004752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. Gavin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-12-17
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0230595138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book-length look at childhood in Edwardian fiction, this book challenges assumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of the Victorian or the start of the Modern. Exploring both classics and popular fiction, the authors provide a a compelling picture of the Edwardian fictional cult of childhood.
Author: Thea Thompson
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981 (1982 printing)
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Edwardian childhoods looks into the distant, vivid and often magical world of children before the great war. Thea Thompson presents, in their own words, the memories of nine Edwardian children whose early lives spanned the whole range of a British society, from some of the poorest families in the slums of London or in the poverty of the English countryside to the daughter of a leading society hostess. We see the adult world, of The Edwardian ladies and Gentlemen through the sharp eyes of a child. This book is authentic voice of their experience and reveals many qualities of childhood now reminiscent of a vanished world. It is fully illustrated with their own photographs and presents a refreshing and unexpected view of the Edwardian world."--Jacket
Author: Jane Pettigrew
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780821219157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Visits the carefree days of childhood during the "golden age" of the Edwardian period
Author: Adrienne E. Gavin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2009-01-15
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds Enough and Time is the first book-length treatment of childhood in Edwardian fiction (1901-1914). Challenging common assumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of the Victorian or the start of the Modern, the collection reveals Edwardian fiction as fascinatingly distinctive, especially in its portrayal of childhood. Conceptions of childhood underwent a cultural seachange in the Edwardian period, seeing the child become central to 'childhood' and childhood central to the Zeitgeist in a way that had not been seen previously and would not endure in the same way after the outbreak of World War I. Gathering international expertise, the volume interweaves studies of single authors with analysis of themes, genres and trends across the period. Innovatively exploring both children's literature and literature for adults, both classics and popular fiction, the collection provides a comprehensive and compelling picture of the Edwardian fictional cult of childhood.
Author: Jonathan Wild
Publisher: Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781474437707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenges conventional views of the Edwardian period as either a hangover of Victorianism or a bystander to literary modernism In this ground-breaking study, Jonathan Wild investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period, long overlooked by critics, is revealed as avibrant cultural era whose writers were determined to break away from the stifling influence of preceding Victorianism. In the hands of this generation, which included writers such as Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Beatrix Potter, and H. G. Wells, the new century presented a uniqueopportunity to fashion innovative books for fresh audiences. Wild traces this literary innovation by conceptualising the focal points of his study as branches of one of the new department stores that epitomized Edwardian modernity. These "departments" - war and imperialism, the rise of the lowermiddle class, children's literature, technology and decadence, and the condition of England - offer both discrete and interconnected ways in which to understand the distinctiveness and importance of the Edwardian literary scene.Overall, The Great Edwardian Emporium offers a long-overdue investigation into a decade of literature that provided the cultural foundation for the coming century.
Author: Philip Nel
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011-06-13
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0814758541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts in children's literature
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.