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Title:
JUVENILE LITERATURE AND BRITISH SOCIETY, 1850-1950
THE AGE OF ADOLESCENCE
By:
Charles Ferrall, Anna Jackson
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ISBN 10:
0415634229
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9780415634229
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Publisher:
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date:
23 April, 2012
Series:
Children's Literature and Culture
Pages:
210
Synopsis:
In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress." In the enormously popular "juvenile" literature of the period, primarily boys' and girls' own adventure and school stories, adolescence is acknowledged as a time of sexual awareness and yet also of a romantic idealism that is lost with marriage, a time when boys and girls acquire adult duties and responsibilities and yet have not had to assume the roles of breadwinner or household manager. The book reveals a concept of adolescence as significant as the Romantic cult of childhood that preceded it, which will be of interest to scholars of both children's literature and Victorian culture.
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9 black & white halftones
Publication:
UK
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Routledge
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