Language and Control in Children's Literature

✍ Scribed by Murray Knowles, Kirsten Malmkjaer

Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 297
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This study examines the work of children's writers from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to expose the persuasive power of language. Looking at the work of 19th century English writers of juvenile fiction, Knowles and Malmkjaer expose the colonial and class assumptions on which the books were predicated. In the modern "teen" novel and the work of Roald Dahl the authors find contemporary attempts to control children within socially established frameworks. Other authors discussed include, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Children's literature in England......Page 14
Literature as a carrier of ideology: children's literature and control......Page 54
Traditional juvenile fiction......Page 94
Today's young reader......Page 127
The fairytale......Page 169
Fantasy fiction......Page 237
Last thoughts......Page 275
References......Page 280
Index......Page 289

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