The Victorian baby in print infancy, infant care, and nineteenth-century popular culture Wagner, Tamara S. 1976- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2020 2020 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations 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. Introduction -- What is a Victorian Baby? -- Nineteenth-Century Infancy: Historiography -- The Iconic Baby -- The Victorian Baby: Lived Realities and their Narratives -- Chapter Outline -- 1: 'A very Moloch of a baby': Left to be Minded in Dickens -- 'A dead hand at a baby': Comical and Savage Babies in The Haunted Man -- 'Myriads of Peepies Yet To Come': Bleak House's Comical Toddler -- 'The Genuine Minder': Child Care Business in Our Mutual Friend -- 2: 'How I Managed': Victorian Infant Care Instructions -- Victorian Baby Care in Print: Instruction Manuals, Mothers' Magazines, and Baby Diaries -- Eliza Warren's Textual Mothering: Infant Protagonists as Case Studies -- The Baby of Victorian Instruction Manuals Reconsidered -- 3: Competitive Infant Care in Domestic Fiction: Charlotte Yonge and the Unidealized Baby -- 'This very anxiety is the best pledge': Charlotte Yonge's Everyday Mothering -- Substitute Mothers and Dying Babies in The Daisy Chain -- When they want a supposititious heir': Yonge's Kidnapping Stories -- 4: Sensational Babies -- The Sensational Victorian Nursery: Mrs Henry Wood's Parenting Advice -- Anxious Maternity as a Source of Sensation -- Danesbury House: Cautionary Parenting Narratives as Sensation Fiction -- George Canterbury's Will: The Victorian Nursery as a Crime Site -- A 'paragon of infantine grace and intelligence': The return of Braddon's slaughtered innocents -- The Trail of the Serpent: The Baby as Victim and Avenger -- Weavers and Weft: Sensational Twists to Plots of Infanticide and Maternal Suffering -- Wilkie Collins's Sensational Maternal Bonds -- Breastfeeding in Victorian Fiction -- Sentimentalised Babyhood and the Illegitimate Infant -- The Dead Secret: Detecting the Birth Mother -- The Fallen Leaves: Sensationalizing Commodified Babyhood -- The Legacy of Cain: Adoption in Sensation Fiction -- Sensationalized Baby-Worship. Tamara S. Wagner. Includes bibliographical references and index. Infants in literature English literature 19th century History and criticism Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique Social History HISTORY SOCIAL SCIENCE Children's Studies English literature Infants in literature 1800-1899 fast PR468.C5 W34 2020 820.9/3523209034 Victorian baby in print Wagner, Tamara S., 1976- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020 First edition. (OCoLC)1130359941 (DLC) 2020945996 9780192599988 0192599984 9780192599995 0192599992 9780191890567 0191890561 9780198858010 0198858019 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/33451 EBLCP 201031 20260319182931.2 in00005719284 eng