Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture
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Animals
Art
Awkward Age
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Cheshire Cat
child labour research
child poverty
Children
Children's Pinafore
childrens
Children’s Pinafore
Christmas Books
commercialisation of childhood in Victorian era
Conferred
Crime
Dalziel Brothers
Disengaged
Education
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Fairy Tale
Follow
Food Supply
Gardens
gender and consumerism
Gift Book
Government
holes
Home Scenes
Home Thoughts
Homosexuality
imperialism in literature
Income
Insurance
john
Juvenile Drama
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon’s Mines
Law
Letter Writing
Literacy
Literature
London SPCC
Long John Silver
Marriage
material culture history
Melodrama
middle-class childhood
Music Halls
Newspaper
nineteenth-century consumer culture
nineteenth-century social identity
Novel
Orphan
orphan child
Periodicals
Persona
Photography
pinafore
Plaything
Poetry
Poor
Poverty
Prostitution
Purple Jar
rabbit
Relationships
religious
Richard III
Schools
silver
society
Squire Trelawney
The Great Exhibition
Theatre
tract
Unforgettable
Victorian childhood studies
Wilde's Play
Wilde’s Play
Windmill
Young Men
Youth
Youth Movements
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- ISBN 9780754661566
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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During the rise of consumer culture in the nineteenth century, children and childhood were called on to fulfill a range of important roles. In addition to being consumers themselves, the young functioned as both 'goods' to be used and consumed by adults and as proof that middle-class materialist ventures were assisting in the formation of a more ethical society. Children also provided necessary labor and raw material for industry. This diverse collection addresses the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, at the same time that it remains steadfast in recognizing that the young did not simply exist within adult-articulated cultural contexts but were agents in their formation. Topics include toys and middle-class childhood; boyhood and toy theater; child performers on the Victorian stage; gender, sexuality and consumerism; imperialism in adventure fiction; the idealization of childhood as a form of adult entertainment and self-flattery; the commercialization of orphans; and the economics behind formulations of child poverty. Together, the essays demonstrate the rising investment both children and adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.
Dennis Denisoff is a Research Chair in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
