Children's Literature and Capitalism [electronic resource] : Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 /
Parkes, C.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Avoiding dead ends and blind alleys: re-imagining youth employment in nineteenth-century Britain -- Family business and childhood experience: David Copperfield and Great Expectations -- Adventure fiction and the youth problem: Treasure Island and Kidnapped -- Commercialism and middle-class innocence: the story of the treasure seeker and The railway children -- Educational tracking and the feminized classroom: a little princess and The secret garden -- The female life history and the labour market: Anne of Green Gables and Anne's house of dreams.
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.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.