The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032043586 / Miękka / 2023 / 234 str.

Elizabeth A. Galway

Opis

Exploring everything from alphabet books for beginning readers, to recruitment materials for high school students, this book examines works from multiple genres and provides a uniquely comprehensive study of transatlantic children’s literature produced during the first global war.

Spis treści

Introduction: Wartime Tales of Innocence and Experience

Chapter One: Family Ties and Family Feuds: National Identities in a Time of War

Chapter Two: ‘What Have We Done?’ The Vulnerable and Victimized Child

Chapter Three: The Child at Play: Blurring the Boundaries between Children’s Pastimes and the Business of War

Chapter Four: Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Thrift-Maker: The Child Contributor on the Home Front

Chapter Five: Young Recruiters and Youthful Recruits: Promoting Enlistment and Other Participation on the Frontlines

Chapter Six: A Babe in Arms: The Conflicted Figure of the Boy Soldier

Chapter Seven: ‘Why We Fought the Hun’: Portraying the German Enemy to Child Readers

Conclusion: The Child as the Embodiment of Hope

O autorze

Elizabeth A. Galway is Associate Professor of English and Board of Governors Research Chair in Children’s Literature and Culture at the University of Lethbridge, where she serves as Co-Director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies. She has published widely on children’s literature and is the author of From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children’s Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity (Routledge, 2008). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter, an M.A. from Durham University, and an Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto.