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Conceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England : literature, representation, and the NSPCC /

"Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Fle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flegel, Monica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Colección:Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creating cruelty to children : genre, authority, and the endangered child
  • "Animals and children" : savages, innocents, and cruelty
  • "What eyes should see" : child performance and peeping behind the scenes
  • "Cannibalism in England" : commerce, consumption, and endangered childhood
  • The dangerous child : juvenile delinquents, criminality, and the NSPCC
  • Conclusion : inspector stories : the inspector's directory and the cruelty man.