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Author:
Parkes, Christopher.
Title:
Children's literature and capitalism : fictions of social mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 / Christopher Parkes.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
ix, 215 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
Children in literature.
Social mobility--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Capitalism in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
Critical approaches to children's literature
ISBN:
0230364128
9780230364127
OCLC:
(OCoLC)785873629
LCCN:
2012022936
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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