The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0198858019
- ISBN-13
- 9780198858010
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-05-28
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Tamara S. Wagner
Description
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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