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Chen, Shih-Wen – Children's Literature in Education, 2013
This paper considers how "knowledge" of China was presented for Victorian and Edwardian children in "The Boy's Own Paper" ("BOP") between 1879 and 1914. It considers how genre affects the representation of China in the "BOP" by comparing travel narratives and adventure stories. First, it focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
Fader, Daniel – Library Journal, 1971
One hundred and thirty-one British periodicals on general subjects published between the Restoration and the death of Queen Victoria are now made available through University Microfilms. (MF)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Library Materials, Microfilm, Nineteenth Century Literature
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Protherough, Robert – British Journal of Educational Studies, 1979
In examining "authenticity to school life" as a criterion for judging school novels, the author looks at the extent to which the writers themselves have considered this important. He focuses on the period 1906-1930, when a fashion arose for some novelists to attack earlier school novels as untrue. (SJL)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Experience, Evaluation Criteria, Fiction
Bischoff, Brigitte – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1976
Describes a multidisciplinary combination course in teacher training, stressing area studies along with literature. The literary unit was "the industrial novel of the 19th century." Area study covered the industrial revolution and its effects on British society. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), English Literature