The making of the modern child
Subtitle: children's literature and childhood in the late eighteenth century
By: Andrew O'Malley.
Series: Children's literature and culture ;; 28
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Children -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: The coach and six : chapbook residue in late eighteenth-century children's literature; title: Class relations in middle-class children's literature : interacting with and representing the poor and the rich; title: The medical management of the late eighteenth-century child; title: Towards the self-regulating subject : teaching discipline in pedagogical systems and children's books; title: Molding the middle-class subject of the future : applied lessons and the construction of gender roles; title: The trajectory of children's literature into the early nineteenth century : moving toward a middle-class form of fantasy.