This diverse collection addresses not only the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, but also children themselves as agents in the formation of that culture. Topics include child performers on the Victorian stage; imperialism in adventure fiction; gender, sexuality and consumerism; and the commercialization of orphans. The essays demonstrate the rising investment children and adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.
This diverse collection addresses not only the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, but also children themselves as agents in the formation of that culture. Topics include child performers on the Victorian stage; imperialism in adventure fiction; gender, sexuality and consumerism; and the commercialization of orphans. The essays demonstrate the rising investment children and adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.
Contents: Introduction: Small change: the consumerist designs of the 19th-century child Dennis Denisoff. Part 1 Play Things: Toys and Theater: Experiments before breakfast: toys education and middle-class childhood Teresa Michals; Paper dreams and romantic projections: the 19th-century toy theater boyhood and aesthetic play Liz Farr; The drama of precocity: child performers on the Victorian stage Marah Gubar. Part 2 Consuming Desires: 'I'm not a bit expensive': Henry James and the sexualization of the Victorian girl Michèle Mendelssohn; For-getting to eat: Alice's mouthing metonymy Carol Mavor; Salome's lost childhood: Wilde's daughter of Sodom jugendstil culture and the queer afterlife of a decadent myth Richard A. Kaye. Part 3 Adulthood and Nationhood: Adult children's literature in Victorian Britain Claudia Nelson; Home Thoughts and Home Scenes: packaging middle-class childhood for Christmas consumption Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; Maps pirates and treasure: the commodification of imperialism in 19th-century boys' adventure fiction Ymitri Mathison. Part 4 Children and the Terrors of Cultural Consumption: Toys and terror: Lucy Clifford's Anyhow Stories Patricia Demers; 'We have orphans [...] in stock': crime and the consumption of sensational children Tamara S. Wagner; 'And now Tom being killed and all spent and eaten': children consumption and commerce in 19th-century child-protection discourse Monica Flegel; Index.
Contents: Introduction: Small change: the consumerist designs of the 19th-century child Dennis Denisoff. Part 1 Play Things: Toys and Theater: Experiments before breakfast: toys education and middle-class childhood Teresa Michals; Paper dreams and romantic projections: the 19th-century toy theater boyhood and aesthetic play Liz Farr; The drama of precocity: child performers on the Victorian stage Marah Gubar. Part 2 Consuming Desires: 'I'm not a bit expensive': Henry James and the sexualization of the Victorian girl Michèle Mendelssohn; For-getting to eat: Alice's mouthing metonymy Carol Mavor; Salome's lost childhood: Wilde's daughter of Sodom jugendstil culture and the queer afterlife of a decadent myth Richard A. Kaye. Part 3 Adulthood and Nationhood: Adult children's literature in Victorian Britain Claudia Nelson; Home Thoughts and Home Scenes: packaging middle-class childhood for Christmas consumption Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; Maps pirates and treasure: the commodification of imperialism in 19th-century boys' adventure fiction Ymitri Mathison. Part 4 Children and the Terrors of Cultural Consumption: Toys and terror: Lucy Clifford's Anyhow Stories Patricia Demers; 'We have orphans [...] in stock': crime and the consumption of sensational children Tamara S. Wagner; 'And now Tom being killed and all spent and eaten': children consumption and commerce in 19th-century child-protection discourse Monica Flegel; Index.
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