The Victorian baby in print : infancy, infant care, and nineteenth-century popular culture /
The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Drawing on novels by writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as parenting magazines and manuals, it analyses how representations of infancy shaped an iconography th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Drawing on novels by writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as parenting magazines and manuals, it analyses how representations of infancy shaped an iconography that has defined the Victorian age. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192599988 0192599984 9780192599995 0192599992 9780191890567 0191890561 |