By Valerie Krips
ISBN-10: 0203906764
ISBN-13: 9780203906767
ISBN-10: 0815338635
ISBN-13: 9780815338635
The presence of the previous reviews the interplay of background and fiction written for kids over a forty yr interval in Britain, exploring various works for kids from the story of Peter Rabbit to I undercover agent.
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She thus connects us to the past in multiple ways. Yet she also retains the freshness that is the concomitant of the readership of children, who approach her with a child’s ahistoricism. She is as new to each new generation of readers as she was to us. Alice is a child character whom we will meet in Chapter 3 of this book, since she graces one of the pavilions erected on the South Bank of the Thames to house the Festival of Britain of 1951. When we meet her there, it will be argued that she is to be found in the pavilion—and it should be noted that those responsible for her placement could not, after the event, recall why she was included at all—because she is a potent symbol of a fantastic relation to the past that children have come to symbolize.
9. Ibid. 10. The economic situation of postwar Britain is complex. For a recent account of the war’s effect in economic as well as social terms, see Correlli Barnett, The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation (London: Macmillan, 1986) and The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities 1945–1950 (London: Pan Books, 1996). 11. Clarke, Hope and Glory, 263. 12. François Bédirada, A Social History of England 1851–1990, trans. Foster (London: Routledge, 1991), 201. 13.
27 One of the writers who famously mocked and destroyed earlier versions of literary children was Charles Ludwig Dodgson, known also as Lewis Carroll. ”29 The displacement of Pilgrim by Alice is momentous. Harvey Darton, the doyen of historians of English children’s books, writes that Alice in Wonderland was “a revolution…. It was the coming to the surface, powerfully and permanently, the first unapologetic, undocumented appearance in print, for readers who needed it, of liberty of thought in children’s books.
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