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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Victorian baby in print
    sub title: infancy, infant care, and nineteenth-century popular culture
  name:
    name part: Wagner, Tamara S.
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture explores the representation of babyhood in Victorian Britain. The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture, this critical analysis discusses the changing roles of an iconic figure. A close look at the wide-ranging portrayal of infants and infant care not only reveals how divergent and often contradictory Victorian attitudes to infancy really were, but also challenges persistent cliches surrounding the literary baby that emerged or were consolidated at the time, and which are largely still with us. Drawing on a variety of texts, including novels by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, and0Charlotte Yonge, as well as parenting magazines of the time, childrearing manuals, and advertisements, this study analyses how their representations of infancy and infant care utilised and shaped an iconography that has become definitional of the Victorian age itself. The familiar cliches surrounding the Victorian baby have had a lasting impact on the way we see both the Victorians and babies, and a critical reconsideration might also prompt a self-critical reconsideration of the still burgeoning market for infant care advice today.
  note: Tamara S. Wagner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Infants in literature
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PR468.C5 W34 2020
  classification: 820.9/3523209034
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Victorian baby in print
    name:
      name part: Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1202463448
  identifier: 9780198858010
  identifier: 0198858019
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191213
    record change date: 20250318214257.3
    record identifier: in00004434762
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng