Title The making of the modern child : children's literature and childhood in the late eighteenth century / Andrew O'Malley.

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New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	Children's literature and culture ; 28
	Children's literature and culture ; 28.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index.
Contents	The coach and six : chapbook residue in late eighteenth-century children's literature -- Class relations in middle-class children's literature : interacting with and representing the poor and the rich -- The medical management of the late eighteenth-century child -- Towards the self-regulating subject : teaching discipline in pedagogical systems and children's books -- Molding the middle-class subject of the future : applied lessons and the construction of gender roles -- The trajectory of children's literature into the early nineteenth century : moving toward a middle-class form of fantasy.
Summary	Explores how the concept of childhood in the Victorian era was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as contemporary pedagogical and medical writing.
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Subject	Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
	Children's literature, English.
	English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Children -- Books and reading.
	Great Britain.
	History.
	Children -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Children.
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Subject	Children.
Other Form:	Print version: O'Malley, Andrew, 1968- Making of the modern child. New York : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2003006065
ISBN	0203504313 (electronic book)
	9780203504314 (electronic book)
	0415942993 (Cloth)

Title The making of the modern child : children's literature and childhood in the late eighteenth century / Andrew O'Malley.

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