Overview
- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature
Book Subtitle: Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood
Authors: Lucy Andrew
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62090-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62089-3Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87231-5Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62090-9Published: 19 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 243
Topics: Children's Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature