Making of the Modern Child

Informationen zum Autor Andrew O’Malley is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University, Canada. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The English Middle Classes of the Late Eighteenth Century and the Impetus for Pedagogical Reform 1. The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature 2. Class Relations in Middle-Class Children's Literature: Interacting with and Representing the Poor and the Rich 3. The Medical Management of the Late Eighteenth-Century Child 4. Towards the Self-Regulating Subject: Teaching Discipline in Pedagogical Systems and Children's Books 5. Molding the Middle-Class Subject of the Future: Applied Lessons and the Construction of Gender Roles Conclusion: he Trajectory of Children's Literature into the Early Nineteenth Century: Moving Towards a Middle-Class Form of Fantasy Notes Works Cited

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• Authors: Andrew malley, O&apos, Andrew O'Malley, Andrew (Ryerson University O'Malley, O'Malley Andrew
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2003
• EAN: 9780415942997
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94299-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture; Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general