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Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War
Lissa Paul
(editor),
Rosemary Ross Johnston
(editor),
Emma Short
(editor),
New York (City)
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Routledge
,
2015
15380074
2015
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'Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North America, and the Global South during the First World War and surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children’s Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available archival resources (including letters written by children), the contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were transformed into socially responsible children actively committing themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural connections across what had been perceived as ‘enemy’ lines, perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian children’s literature and culture are situated so that they work in conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the impact of war on the lives of children.' (Publication summary)
New York (City) : Routledge , 2015 pg. 139-161
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Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War
Lissa Paul
(editor),
Rosemary Ross Johnston
(editor),
Emma Short
(editor),
New York (City)
:
Routledge
,
2015
15380074
2015
selected work
criticism
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- The Magic Pudding : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff 1918 single work children's fiction
- The Cub : Six Months in His Life : A Story in War-Time 1915 single work novel
- My Mask : For What Little I Know of the Man Behind It, An Autobiography 1970 single work autobiography
- Snugglepot and Cuddlepie : Their Adventures Wonderful 1918 single work children's fiction
- 'Ginger Mick' 1915 single work poetry
- From Billabong to London 1915 single work children's fiction