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Author:
Flegel, Monica.
Title:
Conceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England : literature, representation, and the NSPCC / Monica Flegel.
Publisher:
Ashgate Pub. Company,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
208 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Children in literature
Child abuse in literature
Children--Great Britain--Social conditions.
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Literature and society--England--History--19th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Creating cruelty to children : genre, authority, and the endangered child -- "Animals and children" : savages, innocents, and cruelty -- "What eyes should see" : child performance and peeping behind the scenes -- "Cannibalism in England" : commerce, consumption, and endangered childhood -- The dangerous child : juvenile delinquents, criminality, and the NSPCC -- Conclusion : inspector stories : the inspector's directory and the cruelty man.
Series:
Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
ISBN:
0754693112 (ebook)
9780754693116 (ebook)
0754664562 (alk. paper)
9780754664567 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)263604824
LCCN:
2008044427
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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