Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Vanessa Smith

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Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1531503586

ISBN13:9781531503581

Release Date:September 2023

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Psychology Social Science Social Sciences

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