@article{ref1,
title="Imperial boyhood: piracy and the play ethic",
journal="Victorian studies",
year="2011",
author="Deane, Bradley",
volume="53",
number="4",
pages="689-714",
abstract="Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies of preserving power. This article traces the emergence of this fantasy through a series of stories about the relationship of the boy and the pirate, figures whose opposition in mid-Victorian literature was used to articulate the moral legitimacy of colonialism, but who became doubles rather than antitheses in later novels, such as R.L. Stevenson's &quot;Treasure Island&quot; and Joseph Conrad's &quot;Lord Jim.&quot; Masculine worth needed no longer to be measured by reference to transcendent, universal laws, but by a morally flexible ethic of competitive play, one that bound together boyishness and piracy in a satisfying game of international adventure.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0042-5222",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}