Socialists of the Future: Environmentalism and Childhood in Fin-de-siècle Socialist Literature

这个项目将研究如何在十九世纪末和二十世纪初的英国社会主义文学的童年代表反映和表达新兴的生态问题。这项研究将有助于最近的生态批评工作在维多利亚时代的研究采取一种新的方法，建立奖学金的神话童年，研究社会主义文学写的成年人对儿童和被忽视的社会主义文学的儿童，包括知名的社会主义者，H。G.威尔斯，E.内斯比特和乔治萧伯纳，以及一些社会主义小作家。我将研究儿童在社会主义环境意识形态中所扮演的角色，包括儿童读者和虚构的儿童，研究诸如田园主义、乌托邦、环境监护和人类世等主题。以及照亮在童年和环保主义的历史研究被忽视的领域，该项目旨在为当代儿童参与社会政治问题，如Greta Thunberg的“学校气候罢工”倡议，她开始在十五岁，并通过最近涌入的环境和政治意识的儿童出版提供历史背景。

This project will examine how the representation of childhood in British socialist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflects and expresses emerging ecological concerns. This research will contribute to recent eco-critical work in Victorian studies by taking a new approach to established scholarship on the mythology of childhood, examining socialist literature written for adults about children and overlooked socialist literature for children, including lesser known works of well-known socialists, H. G. Wells, E. Nesbit and George Bernard Shaw, alongside that of minor socialist writers. I will investigate the role played by the child - both the child reader and the fictional child - in socialist environmental ideology, looking at themes such as pastoralism, utopianism, environmental guardianship and the Anthropocene. As well as illuminating neglected areas of study in the history of childhood and environmentalism, this project aims to provide historical context for the contemporary involvement of children in sociopolitical issues, such as Greta Thunberg's 'school climate strike' initiative, which she began at age fifteen, and by the recent influx of environmentally and politically conscious children's publishing.