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To do this, I pose a series of questions in which critical underpinnings such as reader-response and reception theories, New Historicism, and historiography all play a part in understanding the development of the genre within the context of a maritime culture. For example: what contemporary cultural and political ideologies are at work behind writing for “empire boys” in nineteenth-century Britain? What were the didactic intentions and expected outcomes of providing adolescents with these stories, and how do they influence contemporary and modern critical responses? By examining Victorian maritime culture as it was presented to boys in books and juvenile periodicals, we might better understand such didactic and delightful literature as morally formative and culturally informative, and why adventure stories continue to delight young readers today."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Schooners, Islands, and Maroons: Sea Adventures for Empire Boys Through the Nineteenth Century"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Bono, Barbara","English"],"dc:creator":["White, Rebekah"],"dc:date":["2019-07-30T15:11:27Z","2019","2019-05-16 14:04:34"],"dc:description":["M.A.","Concerning the dynamic nature of children’s adventure stories as a genre, Dennis Butts contends that “Western society is changing, and it is inevitable that adventure stories should reflect these changes” (Butts, 2014, 351). But where did this dynamic begin, and for what purpose? 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