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The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written

How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary

Excerpt from The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England The subject of this volume is one which, from

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.