From Brown to Bunter: The Life and Death of the School Story

ISBN-13: 9781138953239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 276 str.

Musgrave

Opis

Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days and Farrar’s Eric.

Spis treści

1. The Problem and the Approach 2. Precursors of Tom Brown and Eric 3. Tom Brown and Eric 4. The 1860s to the Early 1880s 4. Talbot Baines Reed: The Genre Defined 5. Social Structural Supports 6. Exemplars of Change 7. Change, 1890-1930. Conclusions

O autorze

P. W. Musgrave