Scholarship Boys in the Mid-Twentieth Century
by
Haru Takiuchi
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard Hoggart termed ‘scholarship boys’:...