The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature: Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 10034/620609
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319620893
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph, originating as a doctoral project, examines the relationship between the boy detective figure and changing constructions of boyhood and male adolescence from the 1860s to the 1940s. It makes a significant original contribution to crime fiction and children’s literature scholarship through extensive archival research, focusing on understudied forms of children’s literature such as ‘penny dreadfuls’ and story papers. In addition to mapping the history of the children’s detective genre in Britain and examining its changing ideological functions, the monograph revises the traditional history of British crime fiction by focusing on juvenile forms which have often been overlooked.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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