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Author Inglis, Fred.

Title The promise of happiness : value and meaning in children's fiction / Fred Inglis
Edition Paperback edition
Published Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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Description xiv, 333 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Theory and Experience: 1. The terms of reference; 2. Looking back into the blank of my infancy; 3. The history of children - little innocents and limbs of Satan; Part II. Texts and Contexts: The Old Books: 4. The lesser great tradition; 5. Class and classic - the greatness of Arthur Ransome; 6. Girl or boy: home and away; 7. Let's be friends; 8. Cult and culture: a political-psychological excursus; Part III. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: The New Work: 9. History absolves nobody - ritual and romance; 10. Rumours of angels and spells in the suburbs; 11. Experiments with time and notes on nostalgia; 12. Love and death in children's novels; 13. Resolution and independence; Bibliography; Index
Analysis Children's stories in English Stories for children, 9-13 years
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 312-324
Subject Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Children's stories -- History and criticism.
Literature and society.
LC no. 80049986
ISBN 0521231426
0521270707 (paperback)