British Working-Class Writing for Children

1. Introduction
Haru Takiuchi

Part I. Children’s Book Publishing and the Working-Class Culture

2. Class Culture and Children’s Book Publishing: Leila Berg’s Nippers and Aidan Chambers’ Topliner
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3. Bad Language or Working-Class Language: Robert Westall’s The Machine Gunners

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Part II. Scholarship Boy Experiences in Children’s Books

4. Education and Uncertainty in Aidan Chamber’s Dance on My Grave

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5. Aidan Chambers’ Breaktime: Class, Anxiety and Home
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6. Alan Garner’s Red Shift: The Anger of the Scholarship Boy
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Part III. Children’s Book Criticism and Scholarship Boys

7. Class and Children’s Book Criticism
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8. The Conclusion of The Owl Service: Critical Ignorance of Class Anger
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9. Robert Westall’s Fathom Five: The Scholarship Boy and Socialism
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10. Conclusion: “The Awareness of Standing Between Two Cultures”
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Keywords: Literature, Children's Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction