The Nineteenth-century Child and Consumer CultureThis collection addresses the roles assigned to children in the context of 19th-century consumer culture. Topics include toys and middle-class childhood, boyhood and toy theater, child performers on the Victorian stage, gender, sexuality and consumerism, and imperialism in adventure fiction. |
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This article, or one article in this book, is discussing Dickens' character of "The Infant Phenomenon" in Nicholas Nickleby. Not sure about the rest of this book, but I would like to know more in any event, or whatever . . . ??
This is referring to the Crummles, in NN.
Contents
Toys Education | 29 |
The NineteenthCentury | 43 |
Child Performers on the Victorian Stage | 63 |
of the Victorian Girl | 81 |
Alices Mouthing Metonymy | 95 |
Wildes Daughter of Sodom | 119 |
Adult Childrens Literature in Victorian Britain | 137 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nineteenth-century Child and Consumer Culture Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present |
| Editor | Dennis Denisoff |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 |
| ISBN | 0754661563, 9780754661566 |
| Length | 239 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / General Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare Social Science / Sociology / General |
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