Empire's Children : Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books.
Title:
Empire's Children : Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books.
Author:
Kutzer, M. Daphne.
ISBN:
9780203906859
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (182 pages)
Series:
Children's Literature and Culture ; v.16
Children's Literature and Culture
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Terminology and Territory -- Setting Sail -- Kipling's Rules of the Game -- The Empire at Home: Burnett and Nesbit -- Imperial Fantasies: Lofting and Milne -- Swallows and Amazons Forever? -- Empire Then and Now: Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Empire's Children looks at works at by Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Hugh Lofting, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Ransome for the ways these writers consciously and unconsciously used the metaphors of empire in their writing for children.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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