Youth of Darkest England examines the representation of English working-class children-the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England"-in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, the book focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working class children into the British imperial enterprise. It is generally assumed that the dominant middle-classes succeeded in recruiting the working-class youth and thus easily manipulating these young people for nationalist...
Youth of Darkest England examines the representation of English working-class children-the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a...
This book examines the representation of English working-class children the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working-class children into the British imperial enterprise, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class youth resisted a nationalist identification process that tended to eradicate or obfuscate class differences.
This book examines the representation of English working-class children the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of w...
