| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present |
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Small Change: The Consumerist Designs of the Nineteenth-Century Child; PART 1: Play Things: Toys and Theater; 1 Experiments before Breakfast: Toys, Education and Middle-Class Childhood; 2 Paper Dreams and Romantic Projections: The Nineteenth-Century Toy Theater, Boyhood and Aesthetic Play; 3 The Drama of Precocity: Child Performers on the Victorian Stage; PART 2: Consuming Desires; 4 ""I'm not a bit expensive"": Henry James and the Sexualization of the Victorian Girl |
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5 For-getting to Eat: Alice's Mouthing Metonymy6 Salome's Lost Childhood: Wilde's Daughter of Sodom, Jugendstil Culture and the Queer Afterlife of a Decadent Myth; PART 3: Adulthood and Nationhood; 7 Adult Children's Literature in Victorian Britain; 8 Home Thoughts and Home Scenes: Packaging Middle-class Childhood for Christmas Consumption; 9 Maps, Pirates and Treasure: The Commodification of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Boys' Adventure Fiction; PART 4: Children and the Terrors of Cultural Consumption; 10 Toys and Terror: Lucy Clifford's Anyhow Stories |
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11 ""We have orphans ... in stock"": Crime and the Consumption of Sensational Children12 ""And now Tom being killed, and all spent and eaten"": Children, Consumption and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Child-Protection Discourse; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351884969 |
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1351884964 |
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