The Boy Detective In Early British Children S Literature

Author : Lucy Andrew
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319620909

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The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature by Lucy Andrew Pdf

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the boy’s transition to manhood. It investigates the literary, social and ideological significance of a vast array of popular detective narratives appearing in ‘penny dreadfuls’ and story papers which were aimed primarily at working-class boys. This study charts the relationship between developments in the representation of the fictional boy detective and changing expectations of and attitudes towards real-life British boys during a period where the boy’s role in the future of the Empire was a key concern. It emphasises the value of the early fictional boy detective as an ideological tool to condition boy readers to fulfil adult desires and expectations of what boyhood and, in the future, proper manhood should entail. It will be of particular importance to scholars working in the fields of children’s literature, crime fiction and popular culture.

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527576834

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Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

This book explores contemporary children’s and young adult novels writing back to history and oppression. Divided into three distinct yet interconnected parts, this thematic study analyses selected novels from across the globe, drawing on current critical debates to investigate how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power and language. Examinations of children’s and young adult novels from Britain, Ireland, Sweden, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand offer fresh readings of established texts, and provide important critical perspectives on lesser-known works. The book also examines the use of genre in children’s and young adult literature, including crime fiction, dystopia, coming-of-age, and historical fiction. Addressing vital social justice themes in contemporary children’s and young adult novels, such as human trafficking, postcolonialism, disaster, trauma, and gender and race inequality, the book presents a critically informed analysis of these compelling literary works and their engagement with social and cultural debates.

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 9781538122921

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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature by Emer O'Sullivan Pdf

Historical Ditionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about children's literature.

Author : Mimi Okabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781350325104

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Manga, Murder and Mystery by Mimi Okabe Pdf

Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The book explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade' and Heisei era, broadly speaking. Mimi Okabe shows how detective manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address perceived youth problems but in thematically different ways.

Author : Roisín Laing
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031413827

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The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture by Roisín Laing Pdf

Author : Lucy Andrew,Samuel Saunders
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030749897

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The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction by Lucy Andrew,Samuel Saunders Pdf

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children’s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.

Author : Esme Miskimmin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : British literature
ISBN : 9781137319029

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100 British Crime Writers by Esme Miskimmin Pdf

100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527566866

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Contemporary Crime Fiction by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

This unique and timely book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing innovative and fresh perspectives to the analysis of this most popular and vibrant literary genre. Investigating contemporary crime fiction and the critical debates surrounding its reception and production, the introductory chapter sets the scene for the subsequent analyses of distinct crime fiction topics, themes and authors. The topics include the experimental detective narrative, race and ethnicity, historical crime fiction, domestic noir, feminism and crime, environmental crime, and the poetics of place. Authors examined here range from Ian Rankin, Gillian Flynn, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Robert Galbraith, Nancy Bilyeau, and Martha Grimes, to Tana French, Dale Furutani, and J.G. Ballard, and more. Informed by the latest critical debates and theoretical perspectives in the field, this volume presents an invaluable source of information and criticism on crime fiction for students, researchers and academics alike.

Author : Jupiter Kids
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634287401

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Detective Kids by Jupiter Kids Pdf

Robin and Harper are cousins who grew up on detective fiction and TV shows. Inspired by British books about investigator kids, they decide to start their own detective crew. They begin recruiting from their group of friends, although the pool of people interested shrinks significantly after they all find out that Robin and Harper are serious and not just organizing a lunchtime game. They eventually recruit Oppie, a boy from their school who while not unpopular, is a bit of a follower and afraid to take risks. Joining them from school is also George. He joins for reasons he claims as 'wanting to see you all make fools of yourselves'.

Author : Peter France
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199247846

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The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation by Peter France Pdf

This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).

Author : Daniel Hahn,Michael Morpurgo,Humphrey Carpenter,Mari Prichard
Publisher : Oxford Quick Reference
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199695140

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The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn,Michael Morpurgo,Humphrey Carpenter,Mari Prichard Pdf

The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books. A fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature, this volume covers every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns

Author : David Budgen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474256872

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British Children's Literature and the First World War by David Budgen Pdf

Perceptions of the Great War have changed significantly since its outbreak and children's authors have continually attempted to engage with those changes, explaining and interpreting the events of 1914-18 for young readers. British Children's Literature and the First World War examines the role novels, textbooks and story papers have played in shaping and reflecting understandings of the conflict throughout the 20th century. David Budgen focuses on representations of the conflict since its onset in 1914, ending with the centenary commemorations of 2014. From the works of Percy F. Westerman and Angela Brazil, to more recent tales by Michael Morpurgo and Pat Mills, Budgen traces developments of understanding and raises important questions about the presentation of history to the young. He considers such issues as the motivations of children's authors, and whether modern children's books about the past are necessarily more accurate than those written by their forebears. Why, for example, do modern writers tend to ignore the global aspects of the First World War? Did detailed narratives of battles written during the war really convey the truth of the conflict? Most importantly, he considers whether works aimed at children can ever achieve anything more than a partial and skewed response to such complex and tumultuous events.

Author : Evan Munday
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770900820

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The Dead Kid Detective Agency by Evan Munday Pdf

Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town; she spends her free time in the Sticksville Cemetery and it isn't long before she befriends the ghosts of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. They form the Dead Kid Detective Agency, a group committed to solving Sticksville's most mysterious mysteries.

Author : Russell James
Publisher : Remember When
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781844680269

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Great British Fictional Detectives by Russell James Pdf

The first full-length study of its type highlighting over 400 British literary detectives, many famous through their film and TV adaptations. Using essays to highlight different types of detectives and focusing on some of the more famous such as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse, popular crime fiction writer and former President of Britain's Crime Writers Association, Russell James celebrates the role of the detective in British fiction. Illustrations include original film posters and first edition covers from classic detective fiction. Future books by Russell James in this series will include Great British Fictional Villains and US Fictional Detectives and Villains.

Author : Caroline Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317935759

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Fantasy and the Real World in British Children’s Literature by Caroline Webb Pdf

This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our understanding of the world and to develop a sense of identity and agency. Rowling, Jones, and Pratchett provide their readers with fantasies that are pleasurable and imaginative, but far from encouraging escape from reality, they convey important lessons about the complexities and challenges of the real world—and how these may be faced and solved. All three writers deploy the tropes and imaginative possibilities of fantasy to disturb, challenge, and enlarge the world of their readers.