Toy stories : analyzing the child in nineteenth-century literature /

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"Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, thes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Children in literature.
Play in literature.
Aggressiveness in literature.
English fiction.
Educational literature.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: A toy is being beaten
  • Introduction: Child's play
  • 1. Proper objects
  • 2. Possible persons
  • 3. Our plays
  • 4. Bildung blocks
  • Conclusion: Toy stories.

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