By Troy Boone
This ebook examines the illustration of English working-class youngsters ― the younger population of the bad city neighborhoods variety of writers dubbed "darkest England" ― in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. particularly, Boone makes a speciality of how the writings for and approximately formative years undertook an ideological venture to enlist working-class childrens into the British imperial firm, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class early life resisted a nationalist identity procedure that tended to eliminate or obfuscate type variations.
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