It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature by Lucy Andrew
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This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the boy’s transition to manhood. It investigates the literary, social and ideological significance of a vast array of popular detective narratives appearing in ‘penny dreadfuls’ and story papers which were aimed primarily at working-class boys. This study charts the relationship between developments in the representation of the...
The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature by Lucy Andrew is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.
This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature aloud.
The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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