Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914
by
C. Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.