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Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918

Title
Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918 / Paul B. Ringel.
Author
Ringel, Paul B., 1968-
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]

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Description
xi, 255 pages; 25 cm
Series Statement
Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Uniform Title
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Subject
  • Children's periodicals, American > History > 19th century
  • Children's periodicals, American > History > 20th century
  • Children > Books and reading > History > United States > 19th century
  • Children > Books and reading > History > United States > 20th century
  • Child consumers > United States > History > 19th century
  • Child consumers > United States > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Establishing children's magazines, 1823/1856. Deacon Willis's Companion -- Aunt Maria's Miscellany and the limits of gentility -- Commercializing children's magazines, 1857/1873. Perry Mason and sensational gentility -- The youth's companion and the Civil War -- The cultural custodians -- The jack-in-the-pulpit -- Sustaining children's magazines, 1873/1918. Tales and the city -- Children's magazines and modern childhood -- Epilogue.
Call Number
JFE 15-8086
ISBN
  • 9781625341914
  • 1625341911
  • 9781625341907
  • 1625341903
LCCN
2015024890
OCLC
911921055
Author
Ringel, Paul B., 1968- author.
Title
Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918 / Paul B. Ringel.
Publisher
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-8086
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