The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture by Wagner, Tamara S.

The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198858010)

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The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture by Wagner, Tamara S.

The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

$95.00
The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture by Wagner, Tamara S.

The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture explores the representation of babyhood in Victorian Britain. The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture, this critical analysis discusses the changing roles of an iconic figure. A close look at the wide-ranging portrayal of infants and infant care not only reveals how divergent and often contradictory Victorian attitudes to infancy really were, but also challenges persistent clich駸 surrounding the literary baby that emerged or were consolidated at the time, and which are largely still with us. Drawing on a variety of texts, including novels by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, and Charlotte Yonge, as well as parenting magazines of the time, childrearing manuals, and advertisements, this study analyses how their representations of infancy and infant care utilised and shaped an iconography that has become definitional of the Victorian age itself. The familiar clich駸 surrounding the Victorian baby have had a lasting impact on the way we see both the Victorians and babies, and a critical reconsideration might also prompt a self-critical reconsideration of the still burgeoning market for infant care advice today.

Author: Tamara S. Wagner
ISBN-10: 0198858019
ISBN-13: 9780198858010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d

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Choice 11/01/2021
By Tamara S. Wagner
By Tamara S. Wagner
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Tamara S. Wagner, Associate Professor of Victorian Literature, Nanyang Technological University

Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she teaches Victorian literature. Her books include Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (2016), Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction (2010), and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004). She has also edited collections on Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand (2014), Victorian Settler Narratives (2011), and Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009). Professor Wagner currently works on Victorian babyhood.

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