03481nam 2200745Ia 450 991045485880332120200520144314.01-317-16233-11-282-24323-397866122432330-7546-9311-2(CKB)1000000000766024(EBL)446436(OCoLC)434575264(SSID)ssj0000292395(PQKBManifestationID)12098899(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292395(PQKBWorkID)10269203(PQKB)11457048(MiAaPQ)EBC446436(MiAaPQ)EBC5293366(Au-PeEL)EBL446436(CaPaEBR)ebr10325928(CaONFJC)MIL924970(Au-PeEL)EBL5293366(CaONFJC)MIL224323(OCoLC)1027166624(EXLCZ)99100000000076602420081023d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England[electronic resource] literature, representation, and the NSPCC /Monica FlegelFarnham, Surrey, UK ;Burlington, VT Ashgate Pub. Companyc20091 online resource (215 p.)Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the PresentDescription based upon print version of record.0-7546-6456-2 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Creating Cruelty to Children: Genre, Authority, and the Endangered Child; 2 "Animals and Children": Savages, Innocents, and Cruelty; 3 "What Eyes Should See": Child Performance and Peeping Behind the Scenes; 4 "Cannibalism in England": Commerce, Consumption, and Endangered Childhood; 5 The Dangerous Child: Juvenile Delinquents, Criminality, and the NSPCC; Conclusion Inspector Stories: The Inspector's Directory and the Cruelty Man; Bibliography; IndexConsidering a wide range of texts by authors such as Locke, Rousseau, Caroline Norton, Henry Mayhew, Frances Trollope, and Charles Dickens, Monica Flegel provides an interpretive framework for understanding the formation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The emergence of the NSPCC, Flegel argues, had material effects on the lives of children, and profound implications for the role of class in representations of suffering and abused children.Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the PresentEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismChildren in literatureChild abuse in literatureChildrenGreat BritainSocial conditionsLiterature and societyEnglandHistory19th centuryElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Children in literature.Child abuse in literature.ChildrenSocial conditions.Literature and societyHistory362.76094209034820.9/3526945Flegel Monica898008MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454858803321Conceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England2006337UNINA