The Age of Adventure
Achar, Deeptha![The Age of Adventure](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/106/10699817/CHSBZCOP0310699817.jpg)
The central premise of this book is that children's reading was and continues to be critical to the shaping of a child's subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Foucault and Said, the book offers an incisive account of the rise of children's reading in Britain and its implications for the working class movement in the nineteenth century. It analyzes nineteenth century adventure fiction for boys to show how structurally complicit genres such as an...