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Gilded Youth

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Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion, and the British Public School

By: James Brooke-Smith


Podcast Interview

Revisit a SHCY podcast conversation about Gilded Youth between James Brooke-Smith and Frans de Bruyn here. James Brooke-Smith is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. Frans de Bruyn is Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. You can listen to other episodes of the SHCY podcast by visiting the podcast website, or you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.


About James Brooke-SmithJames Brooke-Smith

James Brooke-Smith is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa and the author of Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion, and the British Public School (Reaktion, 2019). In addition to numerous scholarly articles, his writing has appeared in Aeon, Literary Hub, Public Books, and the Times Literary Supplement.


This post is part of the SHCY Featured Books series, in which SHCY members provide written contributions on various academic topics pertaining to the history of childhood and youth.