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Youth of darkest England : working-class children at the heart of Victorian empire
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Youth of darkest England : working-class children at the heart of Victorian empire

Author: Troy Boone
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series: Children's literature and culture, 34.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book examines the representation of English working-class children, the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighbourhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England", in Victorian and  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Troy Boone
ISBN: 0415972620 9780415972628 9780415653459 0415653452
OCLC Number: 56413860
Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Henry Mayhew's children of the streets --
Class, violence and mid-Victorian penny fiction : "murder made familiar?" --
Improving penny fiction : the "ticklish work" of Treasure Island --
Remaking lawless lads and licentious girls : the Salvation Army and the regeneration of empire --
The Boy Scouts and the working classes --
Patriot games : football and the First World War.
Series Title: Children's literature and culture, 34.
Responsibility: by Troy Boone.
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