Author: Dennis Denisoff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351884956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Get Book Here
Book Description
During the rise of consumer culture in the nineteenth century, children and childhood were called on to fulfill a range of important roles. In addition to being consumers themselves, the young functioned as both 'goods' to be used and consumed by adults and as proof that middle-class materialist ventures were assisting in the formation of a more ethical society. Children also provided necessary labor and raw material for industry. This diverse collection addresses the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, at the same time that it remains steadfast in recognizing that the young did not simply exist within adult-articulated cultural contexts but were agents in their formation. Topics include toys and middle-class childhood; boyhood and toy theater; child performers on the Victorian stage; gender, sexuality and consumerism; imperialism in adventure fiction; the idealization of childhood as a form of adult entertainment and self-flattery; the commercialization of orphans; and the economics behind formulations of child poverty. Together, the essays demonstrate the rising investment both children and adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.
Author: Christian Berg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110140187
Category : Modernism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Get Book Here
Book Description
Rewritten versions of contributions to an international conference held at the University of Antwerp in May 1992. Starting point for the conference was the vagueness of the very terms 'modernism' and 'modernity'. In the first section a group of comparatists address the theoretical and terminological problems of modernism. Practical readings of modernist writers; discussions of different modernist movements; and, the work of critics who have contributed to debates about modernism make up the second section. The third section looks at the problem of modernism from an interartistic and interdisciplinary perspective.
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Alexander William Kinglake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Get Book Here
Book Description
