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Children's Literature and Capitalism C. Parkes

Children's Literature and Capitalism By C. Parkes

Children's Literature and Capitalism by C. Parkes

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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.

Children's Literature and Capitalism Summary

Children's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 by C. Parkes

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.

Children's Literature and Capitalism Reviews

'...Parkes's book is an insightful contribution to the scholarship on youth and capitalism, which deserves more attention from the fields of children's literature and childhood studies' Troy Boone, Children's Literature Association Quarterly

About C. Parkes

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.

Table of Contents

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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NLS9781349349272
9781349349272
1349349275
Children's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 by C. Parkes
C. Parkes
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Palgrave Macmillan
2012-09-10
215
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