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Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War (Hardcover)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global
wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for
reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the
lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the
Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North
America, and the Global South during the First World War and
surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children's
Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available
archival resources (including letters written by children), the
contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of
childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed
as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were
transformed into socially responsible children actively committing
themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural
connections across what had been perceived as 'enemy' lines,
perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian
children's literature and culture are situated so that they work in
conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational
range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a
particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the
impact of war on the lives of children.
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