| 书目名称 | The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature |
| 副标题 | Patrolling the Borde |
| 编辑 | Lucy Andrew |
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| 概述 | Draws links between juvenile and adult detective fiction which are rarely acknowledged in criticism exploring the early history of British detective fiction.Uses extensive archival research on ‘penny |
| 丛书名称 | Critical Approaches to Children‘s Literature |
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| 描述 | This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the boy’s transition to manhood. It investigates the literary, social and ideological significance of a vast array of popular detective narratives appearing in ‘penny dreadfuls’ and story papers which were aimed primarily at working-class boys. This study charts the relationship between developments in the representation of the fictional boy detective and changing expectations of and attitudes towards real-life British boys during a period where the boy’s role in the future of the Empire was a key concern. It emphasises the value of the early fictional boy detective as an ideological tool to condition boy readers to fulfil adult desires and expectations of what boyhood and, in the future, proper manhood should entail. It will be of particular importance to scholars working in the fields of children’s literature, crime fiction and popular culture.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2017 |
| 关键词 | Genre fiction; Popular fiction; Liminal; Male; Adolescence; British and Irish Literature |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62090-9 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-87231-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-62090-9Series ISSN 2753-0825 Series E-ISSN 2753-0833 |
| issn_series | 2753-0825 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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