British Childrens Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914 Carroll Jane Suzanne
British Childrens Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914 Carroll Jane Suzanne The 'golden age' of children's literature in the late 19th and early 20th century…
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British Childrens Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914 Carroll Jane Suzanne
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. 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. 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.
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
Culture and Consumption II
British Language and Culture