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British Children's Literature and Material Culture - Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914 (Paperback)
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British Children's Literature and Material Culture - Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914 (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
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The 'golden age' of children's literature in the late 19th and
early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production and
trade of commodities. The first book-length study to situate
children's literature within the consumer culture of this period,
British Children's Literature and Material Culture explores the
intersection of children's books, consumerism and the
representation of commodities within British children's literature.
In tracing the role of objects in key texts from the turn of the
century, Jane Suzanne Carroll uncovers the connections between
these fictional objects and the real objects that child consumers
bought, used, cherished, broke, and threw away. Beginning with the
Great Exhibition of 1851, this book takes stock of the changing
attitudes towards consumer culture - a movement from celebration to
suspicion - to demonstrate that children's literature was a key
consumer product, one that influenced young people's views of and
relationships with other kinds of commodities. Drawing on a wide
spectrum of well-known and less familiar texts from Britain, this
book examines works from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass,
and What Alice Found There and E. Nesbit's Five Children & It
to Christina Rossetti's Speaking Likenesses and Mary Louisa
Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock. Placing children's fiction alongside
historical documents, shop catalogues, lost property records, and
advertisements, Carroll provides fresh critical insight into
children's relationships with material culture and reveals that
even the most fantastic texts had roots in the ordinary, everyday
things.
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