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

The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature: Patrolling the Borders Between Boyhood and Manhood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319620893)

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

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

$99.99
The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature: Patrolling the Borders Between Boyhood and Manhood by Andrew, Lucy

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

$99.99
Format: Hardcover
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Draws links between juvenile and adult detective fiction which are rarely acknowledged in criticism exploring the early history of British detective fiction
Uses extensive archival research on 'penny dreadfuls' and story papers that have, until now, been overlooked

Contributes to gender studies by exploring the relationship between the fictional boy detective and changing societal constructions of boyhood and male adolescence


Author: Lucy Andrew
ISBN-10: 3319620894
ISBN-13: 9783319620893
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2017
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d
By Lucy Andrew
By Lucy Andrew
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Lucy Andrew is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Chester. Her research interests are in children's and young adult literature, crime fiction and fandom. She has published on Veronica Mars and supernatural crime fiction for young readers. She is the co-editor of Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes (2013).

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