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SUMMARY:The &quot\;Innocence&quot\; of Children's Literature - 1880-1960. 
 How Mainstream Children's Literature Ignored Two World Wars and Other Unpl
 easantness. Or did it? - Peter Hunt\, Visiting Professor at Newcastle Univ
 ersity
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:The history of English-language children’s literature is fou
 nded on a paradox. On the one hand it is supposed to have a symbiotic rela
 tionship with culture\, reflecting and influencing social history\; on the
  other\, for eighty years it seems to have largely ignored wars\, social u
 pheavals and intellectual trends. Is this simply because a lot of texts ha
 ve been forgotten\, or because we have not been reading well-known texts a
 ttentively?  This lecture takes a cheerfully revisionist and wide-ranging 
 approach\, from the dark side of Beatrix Potter\, through Percy F. Westerm
 an’s deeply inappropriate A Lively Bit of the Front (1917)\, the unsung 
 anti-colonialism of Arthur Ransome (and post-colonialism in  general) and 
 Mumfie the toy Elephant capturing Hitler in 1942\, to the deeply regressiv
 e post-Second World War worlds of Philippa Pearce and C. S. Lewis. \n\nPet
 er Hunt is Visiting Professor at Newcastle University\, and in autumn 2013
 \, Visiting Professor at Università Ca’ Foscari\, Venice. He has lectur
 ed on Children’s Literature at over 150 universities\, colleges and to l
 earned societies in 23 countries\, and has written or edited 25 books\, 19
 0 papers\, articles\, and review articles\, 130 reference-book entries\, a
 nd 170 reviews. In 2003 he was awarded the Brothers Grimm Award for servic
 es to children’s literature\, from the International Institute for Child
 ren’s Literature\, Osaka.  He is currently External Examiner for the MPh
 il and MEd at the Faculty of Education\, Cambridge. \n\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ\, room 
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