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Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels (2022)
Journal Article
Lustig, T. J. (2023). Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels. Children's Literature in Education, 54(4), 483-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-022-09475-y

Jacqueline Rose’s influential notion of the “impossibility” of children’s literature rests on the claim that such works “frame” the child and place the adult “first”. Although Ransome’s writings undoubtedly contain instances of such divisions and hie... Read More about Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels.

An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994). Wasafiri, 10 - 16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2020.1760468

This article rereads Penelope Lively's first memoir Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) as not only witnessing the end of British colonial rule, but also revealing how life in England – and more widely Britain – elides and conceals the impact of Empire. Livel... Read More about An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994).