Inventing the Child
Subtitle: Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood (Children's Literature Andculture, 17)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Garland Science
Published: December 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780815335245
Subjects: Children's literature studies: general; Family & relationships; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Social conditions; Children's Studies; Literary Criticism; Sociology; English; Sociology - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Children's Literature; Children's Literature - General; Children; Children and adults; Parent and child
First sentence: The story of Western culture is, according to the conventional wisdom, a story of progress, growth, and development.