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- Title
"Away with dark shadders!" Juvenile Detection Versus Juvenile Crime in The Boy Detective; or, The Crimes of London. A Romance of Modern Times.
- Authors
Andrew, Lucy
- Abstract
"Penny-dreadful" fiction that featured juvenile criminal protagonists proliferated in the 1860s, although it was accused of glorifying and encouraging crime among its young readers. Working from within this controversial tradition, The Boy Detective (1865-66) utilizes the juvenile detective hero to reconfigure the relationship, both fictional and real, between children and crime.
- Subjects
BOY Detective: Or, the Crimes of London: A Romance of Modern Times, The (Book); PENNY dreadfuls; CRIME in literature; JUVENILE delinquents in literature; JUVENILE delinquency in literature; ENGLISH detective &; mystery stories; ENGLISH children's literature; BRITISH literature; POPULAR literature -- History &; criticism
- Publication
Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company), 2012, Vol 30, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0742-4248
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3172/CLU.30.1.18