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Before Tom Brown
The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre's continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children's literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown's Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Grae...
Before Tom Brown
The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre’s continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children’s literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian an...
BEFORE TOM BROWN
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Pennies, Profits and Poverty
Fleet Street in the 19th century was home to a variety of publishing interests - expensive newspapers, periodicals and books aimed at the upper classes; but more importantly radical publishers who campaigned for political reform, a free press and the repeal of newspaper taxes; and a growing market in cheap and sensational literature - penny bloods, story papers and popular magazines and books aimed at the masses. This was Bohemian Fleet Street - which took in not just Fleet Street itself, along with its courts and alleyways, but also neighbouring thoroughfares such as the Strand, Holywell Street and Paternoster Row - where some publishers grew rich while others were forever in debt, and wher...
The Men Who Drew for Boys (and Girls)
This book records the lives and works of 101 "forgotten" illustrators of children's books. For the most part, they worked during what has been called the "Golden Age" of children's book illustration, but while they were contemporaneous with artists such as Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Louis Wain, Arthur Rackham, Cecil Aldin and Randolph Caldecott, most are now barely remembered (if, indeed, they are remembered at all). They were all commissioned to provide illustrations for children's fiction, for the thousands of historical, adventure, school, mystery, war, Wild West and other novels that were published from the 1869s onwards. Many also illustrated other types of children's books - picture b...
Picturing Tom Brown
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