The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 June 2025
- ISBN 9781032892801
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages198 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 Illustrations, black & white; 10 Halftones, black & white 671
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The first full-length analysis of beloved children’s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century considers how the long-running series engages with major developments in European history.
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The first full-length study of this beloved children’s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century moves beyond the largely generic analysis within which it has previously been discussed. Published between 1925 and 1970, the series moves from European reconciliation after the Great War, through a second global conflict to a post-war world increasingly defined by increased secularity and emerging consumerism. Reproducing cover illustrations, Miles Booy’s book examines both those issues which author Elinor M. Brent-Dyer consciously explored (such as the exceptional The Chalet School in Exile, which she sought to explain the Nazi occupation of Austria to her young readers) and those aspects of the text which must be read symptomatically. This is a book which will engage students with historical and cultural interests beyond children’s literature. With barely a midnight feast in sight, but much anxiety about social change, it’s a familiar genre, but not as you think you know it. Hurry up, new girls, class is about to begin...
“In this new appraisal of the still immensely popular Chalet School books, Miles Booy locates Elinor Brent-Dyer’s series within the big themes of the twentieth century – internationalism, urban disenchantment, war, religion, consumerism, secularity – and shows how she sustains the underlying ethos of the books while adjusting to the huge historical shifts of the time. Full of perceptive insights, The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century is written with the seriousness the books deserve and the affectionate humour of someone who really knows and loves the work.”
-Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading, author of A World of Girls and A World of Women.
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Table of Contents:
Housekeeping and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The Chalet School and Pre-Industrial Communities
Chapter Two: Runaways of the Chalet School
Chapter Three: Empire of the Chalet School
Chapter Four: The Chalet School Goes To War
Chapter Five: The Chalet Girls Self-Actualise
Coda: Sex and the Single Chaletian
Bibliography
Index
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