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Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire

Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire

Hardcover

Series: Children's Literature and Culture, Book 34

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0415972620
ISBN13: 9780415972628
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2004
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

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.

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