children's literature and childhood in the late eighteenth century /
Andrew O'Malley.
New York :
Routledge,
2003.
1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) :
illustrations
Children's literature and culture ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index.
The coach and six : chapbook residue in late eighteenth-century children's literature -- Class relations in middle-class children's literature : interacting with and representing the poor and the rich -- The medical management of the late eighteenth-century child -- Towards the self-regulating subject : teaching discipline in pedagogical systems and children's books -- Molding the middle-class subject of the future : applied lessons and the construction of gender roles -- The trajectory of children's literature into the early nineteenth century : moving toward a middle-class form of fantasy.
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Explores how the concept of childhood in the Victorian era was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as contemporary pedagogical and medical writing.
Making of the modern child.
Children-- Books and reading-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Children-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Children's literature, English-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.