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The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature - Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature - Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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This book maps the development of the boy detective in British
children's literature from the mid-nineteenth to the
early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure - a
boy operating within a man's world - addresses adult anxieties
about boyhood and the boy's transition to manhood. It investigates
the literary, social and ideological significance of a vast array
of popular detective narratives appearing in 'penny dreadfuls' and
story papers which were aimed primarily at working-class boys. This
study charts the relationship between developments in the
representation of the fictional boy detective and changing
expectations of and attitudes towards real-life British boys during
a period where the boy's role in the future of the Empire was a key
concern. It emphasises the value of the early fictional boy
detective as an ideological tool to condition boy readers to fulfil
adult desires and expectations of what boyhood and, in the future,
proper manhood should entail. It will be of particular importance
to scholars working in the fields of children's literature, crime
fiction and popular culture.
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