The making of the modern child : children`s literature and childhood in the late eighteenth century /
Andrew O`Malley.
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- ix, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Children`s literature and culture ; 28 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-180) and index.
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.
0415942993 (acid-free paper)
Children`s literature, English--History and criticism. English literature--History and criticism.--18th century Children.--Books and reading.--History--Great Britain.--18th century.. Children--History--Great Britain--18th century.