ABSTRACT

Empire's Children looks at works at by Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Hugh Lofting, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Ransome for the ways these writers consciously and unconsciously used the metaphors of empire in their writing for children.

chapter 1|12 pages

Setting Sail

chapter 2|34 pages

Kipling’s Rules of the Game

chapter 3|32 pages

The Empire at Home: Burnett and Nesbit

chapter 4|28 pages

Imperial Fantasies: Lofting and Milne

chapter 5|22 pages

Swallows and Amazons Forever?

chapter 6|14 pages

Empire Then and Now: Conclusions