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Gebundenes Buch

Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

Herausgeber: Boehmer, Elleke

Beschreibung

The original 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting for Boys (1908) is probably the most influential manual for youth ever published. Yet it is an extraordinary hodge-podge of jingoist lore, tracker legend, extracts from adventure fiction, and autobiographical writing which reveals the multiple anxieties of its author and time.

Autor

Elleke Boehmer is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Life Writing Centre at Wolfson College. A founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, she is the author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books, including monographs and novels. Her monographs include Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995/2005), Stories of Women (2005), Indian Arrivals (winner ESSE 2015-16 prize), and Postcolonial Poetics (2018). Her novels include The Shouting in the Dark (long-listed Sunday Times prize, 2015), and Screens again the Sky (short-listed David Higham Prize 1990). Sharmilla and other Portraits is her 2010 volume of short stories. She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780198799993
• ISBN-10: 0198799993
• Artikelnr.: 51385007