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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:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 255 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Children's periodicals, American--History--19th century.
Children's periodicals, American--History--20th century.
Children--History--United States--History--19th century.
Children--History--United States--History--20th century.
Child consumers--United States--History--19th century.
Child consumers--United States--History--20th century.
Child consumers.
Children--Books and reading.
Children's periodicals, American.
United States.
1800 - 1999
History.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

ISBN:

1625341903
9781625341907
1625341911
9781625341914

OCLC:

(OCoLC)911921055

LCCN:

2015024890

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)