Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918 /

Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ringel, Paul B., 1968-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Subjects:	1800 - 1999 Child consumers > United States > History > 20th century. Child consumers > United States > History > 19th century. Children > Books and reading > United States > History > 20th century. Children > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century. Children's periodicals, American > History > 20th century. Children's periodicals, American > History > 19th century. History
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Table of 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.