Stories and society : children's literature in its social context /
Stories and society : children's literature in its social context /
edited by Dennis Butts.
- London : MacMillan, 1992.
- xvi, 143 p. ; 22 cm.
- Insights .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-135) and index.
The School Story / Jeffrey Richards -- Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War: Paranoia and Paradox / Perry Nodelman -- Home and Family: English and American Ideals in the Nineteenth Century / Gillian Avery -- 'The most beautiful things in all the world'? Families in Little Women / Elizabeth Lennox Keyser -- The Adventure Story / Dennis Butts -- Social Class and Educational Adventures: Jan Needle and the Biography of a Value / Fred Inglis -- Fantasy / C. W. Sullivan III -- Winnie-the-Pooh and Domestic Fantasy / Peter Hunt -- The Dorothys of Oz: A Heroine's Unmaking / Mark I. West.
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Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Great Britain.
Literature and society--United States.
Children's stories--Social aspects.
Social problems in literature.
823.0099282
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-135) and index.
The School Story / Jeffrey Richards -- Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War: Paranoia and Paradox / Perry Nodelman -- Home and Family: English and American Ideals in the Nineteenth Century / Gillian Avery -- 'The most beautiful things in all the world'? Families in Little Women / Elizabeth Lennox Keyser -- The Adventure Story / Dennis Butts -- Social Class and Educational Adventures: Jan Needle and the Biography of a Value / Fred Inglis -- Fantasy / C. W. Sullivan III -- Winnie-the-Pooh and Domestic Fantasy / Peter Hunt -- The Dorothys of Oz: A Heroine's Unmaking / Mark I. West.
0333522478 033352246X
Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Great Britain.
Literature and society--United States.
Children's stories--Social aspects.
Social problems in literature.
823.0099282