ePrints

Words about war for boys: Representations of soldiers and conflict in writing for children before World War 1

Lookup NU author(s): Emerita Professor Kim Reynolds

Downloads

Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.

Abstract

A consideration of the claim that writing for children encouraged young people to enlist and otherwise participate in the First World War with reference to a range of widely-read materials. This illustrated article demonstrates that such a thesis is simplistic and misrepresents the sobre and conflicted nature of much writing about war for young people in the three decades prior to the outbreak of hostilities in 1914.

Publication metadata

Author(s): Reynolds K

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Children’s Literature Association Quarterly

Year: 2009

Volume: 34

Issue: 3

Pages: 255-271

Print publication date: 01/09/2009

ISSN (print): 0885-0429

ISSN (electronic): 1553-1201

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.1919

DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.1919

Altmetrics

Share