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Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
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Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
By
Michelle J. Smith
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Hardback, 224 pages | | Other Information: | 9 black & white halftones | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 08 July 2011 |
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 is the first book-length study of girlhood and empire in Victorian and Edwardian print culture. Redressing the neglect of popular girls' texts, it relates the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire. It provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, such as the Girl's Own Paper and the novels of E. Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the first detailed examination of lesser known fiction, such as girls' robinsonades, the novels of Bessie Marchant and Angela Brazil, and the first Girl Guide Handbook. This book shows how imperial concerns not only informed the way in which girls were imagined as mothers and civilisers at home in Britain, but also as colonial settlers, nurses and explorers, on whom the very future of the Empire depended. |
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Imperial Girls in British Literature and Culture Shaping the 'Useful' Girl: The Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1907 Developing Pedagogy and Hybridised Femininity in the Girls' School Story Adventurous Girls of the British Empire: The Novels of Bessie Marchant Fantastic and Domestic Girls and the Idolisation of 'Improving' Others Be(ing) Prepared: Girl Guides, Colonial Life, and National Strength Microcosms of Girlhood: Reworking the Robinsonade for Girls Conclusion Bibliography Index About the AuthorMICHELLE J. SMITH is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research on British girls' literature, culture and empire has been published in a range of journals and edited collections. She is currently working on colonial Australian girls' print culture and maintains a blog at www.girlsliterature.comcom Reviews'...Smith's book is a well-written study that brings together a range of texts not previously discussed comprehensively in the context of the British Empire. A helpful index keeps the wealth of material accessible.' -Jochen Petzold, Regensburg, ZAA
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | | ISBN: | 023027286X |
| EAN: | 9780230272866 | | Dimensions: | 22.0 x 14.0 x 1.0 centimeters (0.40 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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