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 |
Alices Mouthing Metonymy | 95 |
Wildes Daughter of Sodom | 119 |
Adult Childrens Literature in Victorian Britain | 137 |
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