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      Bleak House by Charles Dickens

      Dennis Butts

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      Children’s Literature and Social Change: Some Case Studies from Barbara Hofland to Philip Pullman

      Dennis Butts

      Twelve innovative case studies exploring the relationship between children’s literature and its social, cultural and political context, ranging from the early 19th Century to the present day.

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      Stories and Society: Children’s Literature in its Social Context

      Children’s literature is increasingly exposed to critical debate in England and America. This collection of essays discusses the contexts, ideologies and narrative structures of children’s stories.

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      From the Dairyman’s Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The RTS, Lutterworth Press and Children’s Literature

      A collection of essays analysing and celebrating the development of children’s literature from the 18th to 20th centuries, with emphasis on the role played by the Religious Tract Society and…

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      Popular Children’s Literature in Britain

      Julia Briggs,Dennis Butts

      Analyzes how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate literary success. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, science schoolbooks or Victorian adventures, this volume shows how historical…

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      Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?: and another Twenty-Five Mysteries of Children’s Literature

      Dennis Butts,Peter Hunt

      A new collection of essays exploring the questions raised by children’s fiction, from textual puzzles to historical and cultural conundrums.

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      Popular Children’s Literature in Britain

      Julia Briggs,Dennis Butts

      Analyzes how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate literary success. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, science schoolbooks or Victorian adventures, this volume shows how historical…

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      How Did Long John Silver Lose his Leg: and Twenty-Six Other Mysteries of Children’s Literature

      Dennis Butts,Peter Hunt

      A wide-ranging and lively exploration of the questions raised by the classics of children’s fiction, both in the texts themselves and in their cultural reception.

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