Posted by John Nichols on June 07, 2023 at 14:35:22 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Camping and Tramping, Swallows and Amazons: Interwar Children’s Fiction and the Search for England posted by Alex on June 06, 2023 at 18:17:51:
Dr Bird, as she is now known, has suggested in a very provocative manner that old AR is a bolshie. AR has indirectly pointed out/compared the loss of income of the UK as India is let go to the change in circumstances that surround the children. It is subtle we see the integration of the poorer children with the upper middle class children, i.e. those that attended boarding school and those that did not. The logical extension of her hypothesis is the modern English Public School educating everyone but poor Anglo Saxon folk. Have a look at the graduating class at Dick's old school. She is saying the world changed and she uses AR to demonstrate the period of the change.
Clever really, in a way she points to the very real humans who like AR and why they are different in a way.
So far I have read the abstract.
She is very good, but her philosophy is hidden deeply. She is Nancy and Dot grown up and real.
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