Empire's children : empire and imperialism in classic British children's books
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Empire's children : empire and imperialism in classic British children's books
(Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 2005)(Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor, v. 16)
Garland Pub., 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Terminology and Territory, CHAPTER 1 Setting Sail, CHAPTER 2 Kipling's Rules of the Game, CHAPTER 3 The Empire at Home: Burnett and Nesbit, CHAPTER 4 Imperial Fantasies: Lofting and Milne, CHAPTER 5 Swallows and Amazons Forever?, CHAPTER 6 Empire Then and Now: Conclusions, Bibliography, Index
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