Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods

Author:   Kristine Moruzi ,  Michelle J. Smith
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
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Pages:   253
Publication Date:   29 September 2023
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Author:   Kristine Moruzi ,  Michelle J. Smith
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9783031383502


ISBN 10:   3031383508
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   29 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1) Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith, Introduction   Section One: CONCEPTUALISING THE INFANT AND CHILD IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRINT   2) Elizabeth A. Galway, Child Figures, Conceptualizations of Time, and Notions of Progress and Decline in Nineteenth-Century British Literature 3) Tamara S. Wagner, The Victorian Baby of Popular Fiction 4) Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith, Children’s Literary Culture in the Nineteenth Century   Section Two: PLACE AND NATION 5) Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Constructing the ‘Scientific’ Child in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Children’s Periodicals 6) Michelle Elleray, South Sea Idols: Pacific Objects and the Victorian Child  7) Beth Rodgers, ‘Bring[ing] back the fairy times’: Nation and the Child in Frances Browne’s Granny’s Wonderful Chair (1857)   Section Three: AGENCY AND CHILDREN’S VOICES 8) Marissa Carrere, “‘By me, by me, by me!’”: Frederick Douglass on Moral Agency and the Writing of Children 9) Virginia Zimmerman, “Being Editors”: Childhood Over Time   Section Four: GENDER, NATURE, AND THE ANIMAL 10) Claudia Nelson, Alienated Girlhood in Works by Christabel Coleridge 11) Jane Stafford, ‘No other air, and no better water, than were to be obtained in her native parish’: The Intellectual World of Jane Taylor’s Display 12) Alexandra Valint, “To a Joyous Land”: Nature, Gender, and Childhood in Kate Greenaway’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin 13) Jessica Straley, Captive Animality and Childhood Disability at the London Zoo   Section Five: FOOD AND THE BODY 14) Sidia Fiorato and Susan Honeyman, Feeding Dickens’s Dysfunctional Families 15) Lesa Scholl, Adolescent Orthorexia: Alice Meynell and Nutrition in late-Victorian Britain

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Kristine Moruzi is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. She has written two monographs, Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 (2012) and From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature, 1840-1940 (with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford, 2018). She is co-editor (with Nell Musgrove and Carla Pascoe Leahy) of Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2019).   Michelle J. Smith is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Monash University, Australia. Her most recent monograph is Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914 (2022). Her other authored books are From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature, 1840-1940 (2018, with Clare Bradford and Kristine Moruzi) and Empire in British Girls’ Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880–1915 (2011).

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