As a typical product of their time, Francis Hodgson Burnett’s novels contain many classist and racist descriptions. In both A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911), the London setting is contrasted against the British Empire. In my paper, I analyse the description of the United Kingdom and India: worlds set apart according to geographic, social, and cultural viewpoints, but brought together by characters who migrate from one country to another, or, more specifically, from what is considered the periphery to the centre.
Children’s Literature and the British Empire: Colonialism and Orientalism in F. H. Burnett’s A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911) / B. Moja. ((Intervento presentato al convegno Betwixt and Between: boundaries and peripheries in children’s culture tenutosi a Dublin nel 2017.
Children’s Literature and the British Empire: Colonialism and Orientalism in F. H. Burnett’s A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911)
B. Moja
2017
Abstract
As a typical product of their time, Francis Hodgson Burnett’s novels contain many classist and racist descriptions. In both A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911), the London setting is contrasted against the British Empire. In my paper, I analyse the description of the United Kingdom and India: worlds set apart according to geographic, social, and cultural viewpoints, but brought together by characters who migrate from one country to another, or, more specifically, from what is considered the periphery to the centre.
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