1st Edition
From Brown to Bunter The Life and Death of the School Story
By P. W. Musgrave
Copyright 1985
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses early nineteenth-century precursors of the school story – didactic works with such revealing titles as The Parents’ Assistant – and goes on to examine in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days and Farrar’s Eric .... Read more
1. The Problem and the Approach 2. Precursors of Tom Brown and Eric 3. Tom Brown and Eric 4. The 1860s to the Early 1880s 4. Talbot Baines Reed: The Genre Defined 5. Social Structural Supports 6. Exemplars of Change 7. Change, 1890-1930. Conclusions
Biography
P. W. Musgrave
