Haru Takiuchi: 1 book

Book cover of British Working-Class Writing for Children

British Working-Class Writing for Children

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’:...
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