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Few people know that boys as young as ten years old were transported to Australia as convicts early last century. Even fewer know that a special boys' prison, Point Puer, was built for them at Port Arthur in Tasmania. Edward Britton tells the horrifying story of the suffering and triumphs of two teenage convicts with very different characters, hopes and fears.
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Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes
New York (City)
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
,
2011
Z1886683
2011
single work
criticism
'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.
Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
New York (City)
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
,
2009
Z1790145
2009
single work
criticism
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And It Could Have Really Happened
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;
— Review of Edward Britton 2000 single work novel -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 45 no. 1 2001; (p. 16)
— Review of In My Father's Room 2000 single work picture book ; Valley of Bones 2000 single work children's fiction ; Edward Britton 2000 single work novel -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Edward Britton 2000 single work novel
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And It Could Have Really Happened
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;
— Review of Edward Britton 2000 single work novel -
Topical Fiction
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (2000-2001) no. 227 2000; (p. 58-59)
— Review of Two Hands Together 2000 single work children's fiction ; Whistle Man 2000 single work novel ; Edward Britton 2000 single work novel -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 9 no. 1 2001; (p. 36-37)
— Review of Edward Britton 2000 single work novel -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 13 no. 1 2001; (p. 96-98)
— Review of Edward Britton 2000 single work novel -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 16 no. 1 2001; (p. 37-38)
— Review of Edward Britton 2000 single work novel -
y
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
New York (City)
:
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
,
2009
Z1790145
2009
single work
criticism
-
y
Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes
New York (City)
:
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
,
2011
Z1886683
2011
single work
criticism
'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.
Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
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- Port Arthur, Tasman Peninsula, Forestier Peninsula - Tasman Peninsula area, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
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