Critical Approaches to Children's Literature: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914

Parkes, C.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-09-10

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349349272

DOI: 10.1057/9781137265098

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 215