Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence

Whether it is shedding new light on well-known texts by Thomas Hughes and Rudyard Kipling, providing a fascinating discussion of works written by boys themselves, or supplying historical context for the development of the concept of adolescence, this book will engage not only scholars of childhood and children's literature but Victorianists and those interested in the history of educational practice."--BOOK JACKET.

Education. for. Active. Citizenship: Tom. Brown. s. Schooldays. The idea that
adolescence is the time when a child begins to change into a politically literate
citizen can be found in very different types of Victorian literature. Disraeli's
Coningsby ...