Review: Children’s Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850–1914

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Book Review| September 01 2014 Review: Children’s Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850–1914 Christopher Parkes, Children’s Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850–1914. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. x + 215. $85. Victoria Ford Smith Victoria Ford Smith 1University of Connecticut Victoria Ford Smith, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, is the author of “Toy Presses and Treasure Maps: Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne as Collaborators,” which appeared in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly in 2010; and “Dolls and Imaginative Agency in Bradford, Pardoe, and Dickens,” which was published in Dickens Studies Annual in 2009. She has completed a book-length manuscript tentatively titled “Between Generations: The Collaborative Child and Nineteenth-Century Authorship,” and is in the early stages of another book, “Scribble-Minded: Retracing the History of Child Art at the Fin-de-Siècle.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Literature (2014) 69 (2): 276–280. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2014.69.2.276 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Victoria Ford Smith; Review: Children’s Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850–1914. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 September 2014; 69 (2): 276–280. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2014.69.2.276 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2014 by The Regents of the University of California2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.