Verlag:
James Clarke & Co Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: Z9L3Y68
EAN: 9780718897369
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Zustellung: Do, 17.09.2026
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Beschreibung
The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genres continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in childrens literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Browns Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucers Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role of the school story in the broader development of the novel as the genre became established through the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded with a whole new perspective on the history of childrens literature.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Robert Kirkpatrick
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 245