Children’s Literature and Capitalism
Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
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ISBN-13:
9780230364127
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.09.2012
Seiten:
215
Autor:
C. Parkes
Gewicht:
431 g
Format:
216x140x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
Explores the changing relationship between the child & capitalist society in the works of the most important writers of children and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods
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
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