Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children’s Literature, 1918–1950
Part of the Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature book series (CRACL)
About this book
Introduction
This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh insight into a popular period of modern British cultural and political history.
Keywords
British children's literature Leisure and children's literature Politics and children's literature children's literature fiction history of literature identity Imagination national identity Tradition
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407436
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-48816-2
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-40743-6
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