03385oam 2200589I 450 991015456530332120230126214841.01-351-88495-61-138-27613-81-315-23807-110.4324/9781315238074 (CKB)3710000000965991(MiAaPQ)EBC4758837(OCoLC)965444494(BIP)63372391(BIP)13716669(EXLCZ)99371000000096599120180706e20162008 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe nineteenth-century child and consumer culture /[edited by] Dennis DenisoffLondon ;New York :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (252 pages) illustrationsAshgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.0-7546-6156-3 1-351-88496-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Play things : toys and theater -- pt. 2. Consuming desires -- pt. 3. Adulthood and nationhood -- pt. 4. Children and the terrors of cultural consumption.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.Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.Consumption (Economics)Social aspectsGreat BritainConsumer behaviorGreat BritainHistory19th centuryChild consumersGreat BritainHistory19th centuryChild welfareGreat BritainHistory19th centuryGreat BritainSocial conditions19th centuryConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsConsumer behaviorHistoryChild consumersHistoryChild welfareHistory306.3094109034Denisoff Dennis1961-1213018MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154565303321The nineteenth-century child and consumer culture2801264UNINA