International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
Moreover, Tolkien did not begin with a list of characteristics of children’s literature; he began with a story he was telling hi ...
the structure and content of legend as well as elements of myth, and from a novel in which there is a finalising conclusion to a ...
high fantasy and must be ranked with Tolkien’s books, seems, at the very least, a bit too preachy when compared to the more subt ...
Hume, K. (1984) Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, New York: Methuen. Kuznets, L. (1981) ‘Tolkien ...
25 Science Fiction Jessica Yates Not every genre of children’s literature has a corresponding adult genre—school stories being o ...
rightly used. Kingsley, by profession a clergyman and by interest not only a writer but an amateur naturalist, was excited by th ...
tablets to do away with food preparation and eating time, a stun-gun for self-defence without killing, a fly-anywhere device str ...
Burroughs. Burroughs learned from Rider Haggard the plot motif of the unattainable Goddess-Woman, and more practically the way t ...
interplanetary rockets’ which he considered new plot ideas; Frank Richards’s riposte corrected him by pointing out the work of V ...
a gap of over thirty years until Hunter retired and a new market appeared for the books, whereupon several more Branestawm colle ...
but to educate his readers in citizenship—that is, Heinlein-style, politically of the right, non-pacifist and libertarian, suppo ...
plague which strikes the ship. All this is done with only knowledge, experience, devotion to duty (and drugs to keep him awake!) ...
internationalist ethos, Walters’s SF is the best of its kind and Britain’s nearest rival to Heinlein in terms of an unfolding vi ...
sciences as science fact to back his fiction, as in Emma Tupper’s Diary (1971), Eva (1988) and its companion piece A Bone from a ...
presses have published overtly Christian SF, such as Wendy Green’s The Great Darkness (1983). Politically correct SF has been pr ...
Green, R.L. (1969/1980) ‘The Golden Age of Children’s Books’, in Egoff, S., Stubbs, G.T. and Ashley, L. F (eds) Only Connect, 2n ...
26 Shaping Boyhood: Empire Builders and Adventurers Dennis Butts Origins of the Adventure Story Romances of the Middle Ages, suc ...
young readers. Agnes Strickland’s The Rival Crusoes, or the Shipwreck (1826) is a typical example of a ‘Robinsonnade’. Mrs Hofla ...
overseas Britain cared about, although three-quarters of that was ruled by native princes and the rest by the East India Company ...
continued to enjoy adventure stories written for adults such as Westward Ho!, an Elizabethan romance by Charles Kingsley (1819–1 ...
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