Title: Imperialism and juvenile literature /
Authors: Richards, Jeffrey.
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Children's stories, English History and criticism; Adventure stories, English History and criticism.; Imperialism in literature.; Exoticism in literature.; Colonies in literature.
Contents: Introduction / Jeffrey Richards -- New Grub Street for boys / Patrick A. Dunae -- The Robinson Crusoe story / Martin Green -- Ballantyne's message of empire / Stuart Hannabuss -- With Henty to Africa / Jeffrey Richards -- Healthy papers for manly boys / John Springhall -- Imperialists of the air / Dennis Butts -- Hunting and the natural world in juvenile literature / John M. MacKenzie -- Noble specimens of manhood / J.A. Mangan -- British imperialism and the reproduction of femininity in girls' fiction, 1900-1930 / J.S. Bratton.