Title Empire in British girls' literature and culture : imperial girls, 1880-1915 / Michelle J. Smith

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 207 pages) : illustrations Series Critical approaches to children's literature Critical approaches to children's literature. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Electronic resource, viewed: February 22, 2024 Subject Children's literature, English -- History and criticism Imperialism in literature. Popular literature -- England -- History and criticism Girls -- Books and reading -- England -- History Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English -- British Empire. Children's literature studies: general -- English -- British Empire. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English -- British Empire. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- British Empire. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. British colonies Children's literature, English Girls -- Books and reading Imperialism in literature Literature Popular literature SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- In literature Subject England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230308121 0230308120

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