Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books
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.
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Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books
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.
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Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books

Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books

by M. Daphne Kutzer
Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books

Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books

by M. Daphne Kutzer

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815334910
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/18/2000
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1440L (what's this?)
Age Range: 18 Years

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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