Children''s Literature and Capitalism - Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914

Zusatztext '...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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

List 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

Report

'...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

Product details

• Authors: C Parkes, C. Parkes, Carole Parkes, Carole Parkes Parkes, Christopher Parkes
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349349272
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34927-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature; Critical Approaches to Childre; Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy