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Youth Darkest England (children's Literature And Culture)
Full title: | Youth Darkest England (children's Literature And Culture) |
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ISBN: | 9780415653459 |
ISBN 10: | 0415653452 |
Authors: | Troy Boone |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Edition: | 1 |
Num. pages: | 254 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2012 |
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Synopsis
This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working-class children into the British imperial enterprise, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class youth resisted a nationalist identification process that tended to eradicate or obfuscate class differences.