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

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.