Understanding Lord of the flies : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
Golding's provocative novel is traced to its origins in the culture of postwar Britain
Sources
xiv, 212 pages ; 24 cm
9780313307232, 0313307237
43096828
Literary analysis
The ignoble savage: From: The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe, vol. 2 (1719) / Daniel Defoe
The white man's burden (1899) / Rudyard Kipling
The voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (2nd. ed., 1845) / Charles Darwin
Education: from: Tom Brown's schooldays (1857) / Thomas Hughes
Mike (1909) / P.G. Wodehouse
Summoned by Bells (1960) / John Betjeman
An interview with Noriko M____, "Japanese school culture" (september 9, 1999)
The adventure story: From: The Swiss family Robinson (1812-13) / Johann David Wyss
The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe, vol. 1 (1719) / Daniel Defoe
The coral island (1858) / R.M. Ballantyne
Treasure Island, chapter 28 (1883) / Treasure Island, chapter 18 / Robert Louis Stevenson
Religion: from: The Old Testament
The New Testament
Institutes of Christian Religion (1536) / John Calvin
The Anglican Book of common prayer
Biology, evolution and Lord of the flies: From: The origin of species (1859) / Charles Darwin
Sociobiology: The new synthesis (1975) / Edward O. Wilson
War and postwar: from: Prospect and reality: Great Britain, 1945-1955 (1985) / T.E.B. Howarth
Talk: conversations with William Golding (1970) / Jack I. Biles
Trials of war criminals before the Nuremberg [sic] Military Tribunals (1950)