{"product_id":"9781350465138","title":"Empire and Race in Enid Blyton’s Fiction Deconstructing Whiteness and Modern Editing Practices","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEmpire and Race in Enid Blyton’s Fiction\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDeconstructing Whiteness and Modern Editing Practices\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSiobhan Morrissey\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ European \/ English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLooking into the implications of the changes made to Enid Blyton's children's stories to omit problematic passages surrounding race and imperialism, this book examines her fiction in its original and revised forms to assess the evolution of her work against evolving political, imperial, and cultural developments in the 20th and 21st centuries.  \u003c\/b\u003eWith detailed explorations of Blyton's highly successful magazine \u003ci\u003eEnid Blyton's Sunny Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAdventure\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Seven \u003c\/i\u003eseries among her other popular works, Siobhan Morrissey contextualises Blyton's fiction within multiple literary and historical contexts, including 20th-century magazines, the Second World War, imperial adventure fiction, the decline of the British Empire and contemporary conceptions of race and whiteness in children's literature. Calling upon critical race theory, white and postcolonial studies, the book models how these ideas can be applied to literature studies and analyses the imperial, racial hierarchies of Blyton's texts and how these can be remedied. Then, taking a broader survey of how contemporary children's publishers are amending authors' works from Roald Dahl to P. L. Travers to Hugh Lofting and to what effect, the book makes a case for an intervention in current editing practices and a reappraisal of how work should be censored and rebranded. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSiobhán Morrissey \u003c\/b\u003ecompleted her Phd in 2022. She currently teaches modules on children's literature, fairy tales and film at the University of Galway, Ireland.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25 June 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350465138\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51223586898060,"sku":"9781350465138","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_b98a1a70-591f-47bd-b765-a97d5a3a8b80.jpg?v=1783078135","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350465138","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}