Imperialism and juvenile literature
By: edited by Jeffrey Richards.
Contributors: Richards, Jeffrey.
Series: Studies in imperialism; Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Manchester [England]; New York; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.; Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism.; Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.; Imperialism in literature.; Exoticism in literature.; Colonies in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jeffrey Richards; title: New Grub Street for boys / Patrick A. Dunae; title: The Robinson Crusoe story / Martin Green; title: Ballantyne's message of empire / Stuart Hannabuss; title: With Henty to Africa / Jeffrey Richards; title: Healthy papers for manly boys / John Springhall; title: Imperialists of the air / Dennis Butts; title: Hunting and the natural world in juvenile literature / John M. MacKenzie; title: Noble specimens of manhood / J.A. Mangan; title: British imperialism and the reproduction of femininity in girls' fiction, 1900-1930 / J.S. Bratton.