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Auteur(s) : Parkes, Christopher (19..-.... ; spécialiste de littérature anglaise du 18ème siècle
et de littérature pour la jeunesse)
Titre(s) : Children's literature and capitalism [Texte imprimé] : fictions of social mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 / Christopher Parkes
Publication : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-215 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Critical approaches to children's literature
Lien à la collection : Critical approaches to children's literature
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-210) and index
"Children's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
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. After the first phase of industrialization in
Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. The exploitation
of children in the nation's dark, satanic mills revealed the unsentimental nature
of the economic marketplace and threatened to render capitalist society as that which
can only destroy the innocent child. Examining the works of authors including Charles
Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and L. M. Montgomery,
Children's Literature and Capitalism explores how a new rhetorical strategy emerged
in the nineteenth century which equated the spirit of capitalism with the spirit of
childhood. Children were re-configured as subjects defined by their innate ingenuity
and invention and, in the process, they were transformed into ideal participants in
capitalist society. This is the first study to focus not on what capitalism has done
to the child but what the child has done to capitalism"--From publisher description
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise pour la jeunesse -- 1870-1914
Mobilité sociale -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Mobilité sociale -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1870-1914
Capitalisme et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne
Genre ou forme : Littérature anglaise pour la jeunesse -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
820.992 82 (23e éd.) = Littérature de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - Pour ou par des enfants
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230364127 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42673276r
Notice n° :
FRBNF42673276
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Cette notice appartient à l'univers jeunesse
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Genre : Ouvrages de référence
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