Commercializing childhood
Subtitle: children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918
By: Paul B. Ringel
Series: Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781625341914; 9781625341907
Subjects: Books and reading; Children's periodicals, American; Children; Child consumers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Establishing children's magazines, 1823/1856. Deacon Willis's Companion; title: Aunt Maria's Miscellany and the limits of gentility; title: Commercializing children's magazines, 1857/1873. Perry Mason and sensational gentility; title: The youth's companion and the Civil War; title: The cultural custodians; title: The jack-in-the-pulpit; title: Sustaining children's magazines, 1873/1918. Tales and the city; title: Children's magazines and modern childhood; title: Epilogue.