The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Denisoff, Dennis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This diverse collection addresses not only the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, but also children themselves as agents in the formation of that culture. Topics include child performers on the Victorian stage; imperialism in adventure fiction; gender, sexuality and consumerism; and the commercialization of orphans. The essays demonstrate the rising investment children and adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351884952
• Artikelnr.: 49336303

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Small change: the consumerist designs of the 19th-century child
Dennis Denisoff. Part 1 Play Things: Toys and Theater: Experiments before breakfast: toys
education
and middle-class childhood
Teresa Michals; Paper dreams and romantic projections: the 19th-century toy theater
boyhood
and aesthetic play
Liz Farr; The drama of precocity: child performers on the Victorian stage
Marah Gubar. Part 2 Consuming Desires: 'I'm not a bit expensive': Henry James and the sexualization of the Victorian girl
Michèle Mendelssohn; For-getting to eat: Alice's mouthing metonymy
Carol Mavor; Salome's lost childhood: Wilde's daughter of Sodom
jugendstil culture
and the queer afterlife of a decadent myth
Richard A. Kaye. Part 3 Adulthood and Nationhood: Adult children's literature in Victorian Britain
Claudia Nelson; Home Thoughts and Home Scenes: packaging middle-class childhood for Christmas consumption
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; Maps
pirates and treasure: the commodification of imperialism in 19th-century boys' adventure fiction
Ymitri Mathison. Part 4 Children and the Terrors of Cultural Consumption: Toys and terror: Lucy Clifford's Anyhow Stories
Patricia Demers; 'We have orphans [...] in stock': crime and the consumption of sensational children
Tamara S. Wagner; 'And now Tom being killed
and all spent and eaten': children
consumption
and commerce in 19th-century child-protection discourse
Monica Flegel; Index.