Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Vanessa Smith

Book Overview

Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531503586
• ISBN13: 9781531503581
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"