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Empire in British girls' literature and culture : imperial girls, 1880-1915 / Michelle J. Smith.
- Title
- Empire in British girls' literature and culture : imperial girls, 1880-1915 / Michelle J. Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Michelle J., 1979-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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- Description
- xi, 207 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Critical approaches to children's literature
- Subject
- Children's literature, English > History and criticism
- Imperialism in literature
- Popular literature > England > History and criticism
- Girls > History > England
- British colonies
- Children's literature studies: general > English > British Empire
- Children's literature, English
- Girls > Books and reading
- LITERARY CRITICISM > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English > British Empire
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English > British Empire
- Literary studies: from c 1900 > English > British Empire
- Literature
- Literature
- Popular literature
- Great Britain > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780230272866 (alk. paper)
- 023027286X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011012462
- OCLC
- 711049344
- SCSB-12302168
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library