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The Victorian baby in print : infancy, infant care, and nineteenth-century popular culture / Tamara S. Wagner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Tamara S., 1976- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This study focuses exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Drawing on novels by writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as parenting magazines and manuals, it analyses how representations of infancy shaped an iconography that has defined the Victorian age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-189056-1
- 0-19-259998-4
- 0-19-259999-2
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