Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 by Charles Ferrall

Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950The Age of Adolescence\nAuthor(s): Charles Ferrall, Anna Jackson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415964760, 978-0415964760\nSynopsis\nIn this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of \""storm and stress.\"" In the enormously popular \""juvenile\"" literature of the period, primarily boys and girls own adventure and school stories, adolescence is acknowledged as a time of sexual awareness and yet also of a romantic idealism that is lost with marriage, a time when boys and girls acquire adult duties and responsibilities and yet have not had to assume the roles of breadwinner or household manager. The book reveals a concept of adolescence as significant as the Romantic cult of chil.