The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature: Patrolling the Borders Between Boyhood and Manhood by Lucy Andrew

Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature: Patrolling the Borders Between Boyhood and Manhood

Lucy Andrew

243 pages paperback 2018

2 editions

nonfiction gender history sociology
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This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties abo...

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