Children's literature and capitalism : fictions of social mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Parkes, Christopher
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:	Critical approaches to children's literature.
Subjects:	Children's literature, English > History and criticism. Children in literature. Social mobility > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Capitalism in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.