The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

by Dennis Denisoff (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $149.92

  Addresses the roles assigned to children in the context of 19th-century consumer culture. This collection includes topics such as toys and middle-class childhood; boyhood and toy theater; child performers on the Victorian stage; imperialism in adventure fiction; and, the idealization of childhood as a form of adult entertainment and self-flattery.