Boy's Own Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boy's Own Book write by William Clarke. This book was released on 1851. Boy's Own Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940
Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 write by K. Boyd. This book was released on 2002-11-04. Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form shaped ideas about gender, race, class and empire in response to social change. This study is an important analysis of a neglected part of popular culture.
Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World
Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World write by Joseph Bristow. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting fit, morally upright, and proudly patriotic - these adventurous young men were set forth on imperial missions, civilizing a savage world. Such noble heroes included the strapping lads who brought an end to cannibalism on Ballantyne's "Coral Island" who came into their own in the highly respectable "Boys' Own Paper", and who eventually grew up into the men of Haggard's romances, advancing into the Dark Continent. The author here demonstrates why these young heroes have enjoyed a lasting appeal to readers of children's classics by Stevenson, Kipling and Henty, among many others. He shows why the political intent of many of these stories has been obscured by traditional literary criticism, a form of criticism itself moulded by ideals of empire and ‘Englishness’. Throughout, imperial boyhood is related to wide-ranging debates about culture, literacy, realism and romance. This is a book of interest to students of literature, social history and education.
The Jack-Roller
The Jack-Roller - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jack-Roller write by Clifford R. Shaw. This book was released on 2013-02-11. The Jack-Roller available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary and jack-rolling (mugging), Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or "own story" as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study and treatment of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.
The Pocket Daring Book for Girls
The Pocket Daring Book for Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pocket Daring Book for Girls write by Andrea J. Buchanan. This book was released on 2008-10-28. The Pocket Daring Book for Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revisit old favorites and discover even more facts and stories. The perfect pocket book for any girl on a quest for knowledge. Includes New Chapters + the Best Wisdom & Wonder from The Daring Book for Girls
