Toy Stories : : Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature / / Vanessa Smith.

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 scene...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: A Toy Is Being Beaten
  • Introduction: Child's Play
  • 1 Proper Objects
  • 2 Possible Persons
  • 3 Our Plays
  • 4 Bildung Blocks
  • Conclusion: Toy Stories
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the author