Empire In British Girls Literature And Culture

Author : M. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230308120
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture written by M. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire.

Author : M. Daphne Kutzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135578222
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire's Children written by M. Daphne Kutzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001.

Author : K. Moruzi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137356359
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 written by K. Moruzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.

Author : Danny Laurie-Fletcher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030038521
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Invasion and Spy Literature, 1871–1918 written by Danny Laurie-Fletcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth century and developed into a clearly recognised form during the Edwardian period (1901-1914). By looking at the origins and evolution of invasion literature, and to a lesser extent detective literature, up to the end of World War I, Danny Laurie-Fletcher utilises fiction as a window into the mind-set of British society. There is a focus on the political arguments embedded within the texts, which mirrored debates in wider British society that took place before and during World War I – debates about military conscription, immigration, spy scares, the fear of British imperial decline, and the rise of Germany. These debates and topics are examined to show what influence they had on the creation of the intelligence services, MI5 and MI6, and how foreigners were perceived in society.

Author : H. Marland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137328142
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920 written by H. Marland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new arenas in the workplace, sport and recreation.

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498546854
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives written by Shilpa Daithota Bhat and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genesis of the history of British colonization in India is often traced to traders, merchants, and the formation of the British East India Company. While this is indisputable, what is ignored is the creation and perpetual fueling of the steady stream of British officers into the Indian economy that happened due to the continuing efforts of British people and society. How did this ensue? In the contemporary world when we talk of the transnational terror networks we are filled with awe when we find children being engineered to the vocation of violence. However, this was true even of the earlier times when writers (albeit politely!) hid the colonial ideology within their literature. The children perhaps were tantalized by the beauties abroad, by the tigers, the rhinos, the ‘native’ Rajas! The use of animal imagery was conspicuous in such literature. This kind of narrative discourse was targeted not only at baby patriots but also at young adults, appealing them with adventurous stories of colonization in India. Through stories, museums, objects; the British children were continuously bombarded with knowledge of the colonies and its alluring bounties. These could be obtained only if the children would study them religiously, internalize the process of travel and looting; and actually reach the destination to perpetuate the imperial agenda. This book encapsulates the agenda of consciously training British children through underscoring resources and fauna in India pursued by the British society in the nineteenth century Victorian England.

Author : Simon Sleight
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137489413
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World written by Simon Sleight and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world.

Author : Kristine Moruzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031383516
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods written by Kristine Moruzi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods that have only recently begun to be illuminated. This scope enables examination of the child in canonical nineteenth-century novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and Thomas Hardy alongside well-known fiction intended for young readers by George MacDonald, Christabel Coleridge, and Kate Greenaway. The century was also distinctive for the rise of the children’s magazine, and this book broadens the definition of literary cultures to include magazines produced both by, and for, young people. The volume examines how the child and family are conceptualised, how children are positioned as readers in genres including the domestic novel, school story, Robinsonade, and fantasy fiction, how literary childhoods are written and politicised, and how childhood intersects with perceptions of animals and the natural environment. The range of chapters in this collection and the texts they consider demonstrates the variability and fluidity of literary cultures and nineteenth-century childhoods.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004426566
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Middlebrow written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, surveys colonial middlebrow texts concentrating on Britain, India, South Africa, the West Indies, and so on, and uses the concept as a tool to read contemporary writing from Britain and Nigeria.

Author : Claudia Nelson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000984524
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture written by Claudia Nelson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.