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The Making of the Modern Child
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Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century
The Making of the Modern Child
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The Making of the Modern Child book
Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century
ByAndrew O'Malley
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2003
eBook Published 12 June 2003
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 202
eBook ISBN 9780203504314
Subjects Language & Literature
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O'Malley, A. (2003). The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203504314
ABSTRACT
This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social reform.
