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Lovelock, Julian

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan

In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories for children. The result was Swallows and Amazons and eleven more wonderful books followed, spanning in publication the turbulent years from 1930 to 1947. They changed the course of children’s literature and have never been out of print since. In them, Ransome creates a world of escape so close to reality that it is utterly believable, a world in which things always turn out right in the end. Yet Swallows, Amazons and Coots shows that, to be properly appreciated today, the novels must be read as products of their era, inextricably bound up with Ransome’s life and times as he bore witness to the end of Empire and the dark days of the Second World War. In the first critical book devoted wholly to the series, Julian Lovelock explores each novel in turn, offering an erudite assessment of Ransome’s creative process and narrative technique, and highlighting his contradictory politics, his defence of rural England, and his reflections on colonialism and the place of women in society. Thus Lovelock demonstrates convincingly that, despite first appearances, the novels challenge as much as reinforce the pervading attitudes of their time. Written with a lightness of touch and enlivened by Ransome’s own illustrations, Swallows, Amazons and Coots is both fresh and nostalgic. It will appeal to anyone who has enjoyed the world of Swallows and Amazons, and there is plenty here to challenge both the student and the Ransome enthusiast. Table of Contents Introduction – ‘The Romantic Transfiguration of Fact’ Part One: Beginnings 1. Arthur Ransome – The Makings of a Writer 2. Swallows and Amazons – Explorers and Savages 3. 'Things Will Go Onward the Same’ – The Optimism of Swallowdale Part Two: Enter the Callums 4. Winter Holiday – Racing the the North Pole 5. Pigeon Post – The Problem of ‘Squashy Hat’ 6. Picts and Martyrs – Nancy Takes Charge Part Three: East Anglian Adventures 7. Coot Club and The Big Six – On the Norfolk Broads 8. We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea – Confronting Reality 9. Secret Water – Growing Up and Apart Part Four: Making It Up 10. Peter Duck – An Unlikely Winter’s Tale 11. Missee Lee – Nancy Meets her Match 12. Great Northern? – A Sense of Endings

Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome

Teen & Young Adult

Lutterworth Press

The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the goings-on at such earnest establishments as Tom Brown's Rugby, St Dominic's, Greyfriars, the Chalet School, Malory Towers and Linbury Court. In the second part of the twentieth century, with more liberal social attitudes and the advent of secondary education for all, these moral tales lost their appeal and the school story very nearly died out. More recently, however, a new generation of compromised schoolboy and schoolgirl heroes - Pennington, Tyke Tiler, Harry Potter and Millie Roads - have given it a new and challenging relevance. Focusing mainly on novels written for young people, From Morality to Mayhem charts the fall and rise of the school story, from the grim accounts of Victorian times to the magic and mayhem of our own age. In doing so it considers how fictional schools not only reflect but sometimes influence real life. This captivating study will appeal to those interested in children's literature and education, both students and the general reader, taking us on a not altogether comfortable trip down memory lane.

From Morality to Mayhem: The Fall and Rise of the English School Story

What do leading Head Masters and Head Mistresses think about the state of education? These are some of their opinions. Seventy years ago Kegan Paul published two influential volumes: The Headmaster Speaks and The Headmistress Speaks. The Editor of each volume invited twelve of the most influential Head Teachers of the day to contribute an essay which outlined his or her vision of education. The results were often surprising. Who, for example, would have thought that the Girls Schools of the 1930s were hotbeds of progressive educational thought? And who realized that then, as now, there was common complaint that the curriculum was being driven by examinations, to the detriment of real learning? But each contribution displayed a real grasp of the practicalities of running a school - so that the visions were visions of the possible - in contrast to the nonsense which so often masquerades as educational theory.Seventy years on, the University of Buckingham Press is repeating the exercise. We are inviting the current Head Teachers of those schools represented in 1936 and 1937 to contribute to a new volume (with the working title The Head Speaks: Challenges and Visions in Education) - and to offer their take on the challenges faced by those in education today, and on the way ahead for our schools. Inevitably some of the original schools have fallen by the wayside, but others have, for example, metamorphosed from single-sex High Schools to Specialist Colleges of Business or Information and Communications Technologies - allowing the new volume to be more representative than its predecessors.

The Head Speaks: Challenges and Visions in Education

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

University of Buckingham Press

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