Conceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England
Subtitle: literature, representation, and the NSPCC
By: by Monica Flegel.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780754664567; 9780754693116
Subjects: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Children in literature; Child abuse in literature; Children -- Great Britain -- Social conditions; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Creating cruelty to children: genre, authority, and the endangered child; title: "Animals and children": savages, innocents, and cruelty; title: "What eyes should see": child performance and peeping behind the scenes; title: "Cannibalism in England": commerce, consumption, and endangered childhood; title: The dangerous child: juvenile delinquents, criminality, and the NSPCC; title: Conclusion: inspector stories: the inspector's directory and the cruelty man.