Children's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.