Parkes Children's Literature and Capitalism

Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-26509-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 215 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Literature Collection

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parkes, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Dead Ends and Blind Alleys: Young-Adult Literature and the Nineteenth-Century British Labour Market Family Business and Childhood Experience: Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Great Expectations Adventure Fiction and the Youth Problem: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped Commercialism and Middle-Class Innocence: E. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers and The Railway Children Educational Tracking and the Feminized Classroom: Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden The Female Life History and the Labour Market: L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Anne's House of Dreams Conclusion: Childhood in the Age of Self-Branding Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

CHRISTOPHER PARKES is associate professor in English Literature at Lakehead University, Canada. He is the author of scholarly articles on children's literature and eighteenth-century literature.