Troy Boone

Youth of Darkest England

Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Youth of Darkest England examines the representation of English working-class children, the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighbourhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England", in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, the book focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working class children into the British imperial enterprise. Lucidly written and thoroughly researched, this book will make a major contribution to our understanding of youth culture and children's literature in the nineteenth century.

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This book examines the representation of English working-class children - the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" - in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working-class children into the British imperial enterprise, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class youth resisted a nationalist identification process that tended to eradicate or obfuscate class differences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415972628
• ISBN-10: 0415972620
• Artikelnr.: 22338160

Autorenporträt

Troy M. Boone is Assistant Professor of English and Acting Director of the Children's Literature Program at the University of Pittsburgh, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword Awknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction
1. Henry Mayhew's Children of the Street 2. Class, Violence, and
Mid-Victorian Penny Fiction: "Murder Made Familiar"? 3. Improving Penny
Fiction: The "Ticklish Work" of Treasure Island 4. Remaking Lawless Lads
and Liscentious Girls: The Salvation Army and the Regeneration of Empire 5.
The Boy Scouts and the Working Classes 6. Patriot Games: Football and the
First World War Notes Bibliography IndexBottom of Form 7