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The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (Paperback)
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The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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During the rise of consumer culture in the nineteenth century,
children and childhood were called on to fulfill a range of
important roles. In addition to being consumers themselves, the
young functioned as both 'goods' to be used and consumed by adults
and as proof that middle-class materialist ventures were assisting
in the formation of a more ethical society. Children also provided
necessary labor and raw material for industry. This diverse
collection addresses the roles assigned to children in the context
of nineteenth-century consumer culture, at the same time that it
remains steadfast in recognizing that the young did not simply
exist within adult-articulated cultural contexts but were agents in
their formation. Topics include toys and middle-class childhood;
boyhood and toy theater; child performers on the Victorian stage;
gender, sexuality and consumerism; imperialism in adventure
fiction; the idealization of childhood as a form of adult
entertainment and self-flattery; the commercialization of orphans;
and the economics behind formulations of child poverty. Together,
the essays demonstrate the rising investment both children and
adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.
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