From morality to mayhem : the fall and rise of the English school story

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From morality to mayhem : the fall and rise of the English school story

Julian Lovelock

Lutterworth Press, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-216) and index

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The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the goings-on at such earnest establishments as Tom Brown's Rugby, St Dominic's, Greyfriars, the Chalet School, Malory Towers and Linbury Court. In the second part of the twentieth century, with more liberal social attitudes and the advent of secondary education for all, these moral tales lost their appeal and the school story very nearly died out. More recently, however, a new generation of compromised schoolboy and schoolgirl heroes - Pennington, Tyke Tiler, Harry Potter and Millie Roads - have given it a new and challenging relevance. Focusing mainly on novels written for young people, From Morality to Mayhem charts the fall and rise of the school story, from the grim accounts of Victorian times to the magic and mayhem of our own age. In doing so it considers how fictional schools not only reflect but sometimes influence real life. This captivating study will appeal to those interested in children's literature and education, both students and the general reader, taking us on a not altogether comfortable trip down memory lane.

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Acknowledgements Referencing Introduction Part I: Victorian School Days Introductory: Education, Evangelism and Empire 1. The Doctor's Story 2. The Moral Story 3. The Popular Story 4. The Imperial Story Part II: A Sense of Endings Introductory: Decline and Fall 5. The Popular School Story 6. The Schoolboy's Story 7. The Preparatory School Story 8. The Anti-School Story Part III: Girls' Schools and their Stories Introductory: Morals, Manners and Mediocrity 9. The Girls' School Story 10. The Anti-Soppist Story 11. The Sunny Story 12. The Twins' Story Part IV: The School Story Revived Introductory: Magic and Mayhem 13. The Secondary School Story 14. The Combined School Story 15. The Magic Story 16. The Subversive School Story Afterword Bibliography Index

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