any generalization about working-class fathers must immediately be tempered by acknowledgement that there were many exceptions. For scholars of children and childhood this study of fatherhood enriches our understanding of the familial contexts in which children grew up. There are other sources about fathers that could add to and perhaps modify Strange’s findings, but she has chosen to limit herself to how they were remembered by their children in autobiographies. The book is as much an exploration of how memories shaped adult lives as an attempt to unearth how children, as children, experienced life. Strange is a sensitive reader of the autobiographies, and, although she doesn’t entirely escape the verbal obfuscation that infects the modern writing of cultural history, the book is an absorbing read.

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伦理与儿童文学

任何关于工人阶级父亲的概括都必须立即通过承认有许多例外来缓和。对于儿童和童年的学者来说，这项对父亲身份的研究丰富了我们对儿童成长的家庭环境的理解。还有其他关于父亲的消息来源可以增加甚至修改斯特兰奇的发现，但她选择将自己限制在他们的孩子在自传中是如何记住他们的。这本书既是对记忆如何塑造成人生活的探索，也是探索儿童如何经历生活的尝试。斯特兰奇是自传的敏感读者，尽管她并没有完全摆脱影响现代文化史写作的语言混淆，但这本书是一本引人入胜的读物。