The Victorian Baby in Print
Author | : Tamara S. Wagner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198858010 |
ISBN-13 | : 0198858019 |
Rating | : 4/5 (019 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Victorian Baby in Print written by Tamara S. Wagner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.