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Conceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England : literature, representation, and the NSPCC / Monica Flegel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flegel, Monica.
- Series:
- Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Children in literature.
- Child abuse in literature.
- Children--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Children.
- Literature and society--England--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considering a wide range of texts by authors such as Locke, Rousseau, Caroline Norton, Henry Mayhew, Frances Trollope, and Charles Dickens, Monica Flegel provides an interpretive framework for understanding the formation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The emergence of the NSPCC, Flegel argues, had material effects on the lives of children, and profound implications for the role of class in representations of suffering and abused children.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Creating Cruelty to Children: Genre, Authority, and the Endangered Child; 2 "Animals and Children": Savages, Innocents, and Cruelty; 3 "What Eyes Should See": Child Performance and Peeping Behind the Scenes; 4 "Cannibalism in England": Commerce, Consumption, and Endangered Childhood; 5 The Dangerous Child: Juvenile Delinquents, Criminality, and the NSPCC; Conclusion Inspector Stories: The Inspector's Directory and the Cruelty Man; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-57333-4
- 1-317-16234-X
- 1-317-16233-1
- 1-282-24323-3
- 9786612243233
- 0-7546-9311-2
- 9781315573335
- OCLC:
- 434575264
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