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- catalog abstract ""Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11369245.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-194) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the rise of the child victim and the state of the novel -- Hideous progeny made clean: heredity and pedagogy in the new poor law writings of James Kay and in Oliver Twist -- In the bosom of the family: Dombey and Son and the wet-nursing debates of William Acton and C.H.F. Routh -- Tender tyranny: the 1839 Custody of Infants Act and custodial incarceration in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Civilization and confession in midcentury representations of infanticide and in Adam Bede -- Conclusion: from pulpy infants to a nation of good animals.".
- catalog extent "x, 199 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813919096 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Victorian literature and culture series".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.809352054 21".
- catalog subject "Children Great Britain Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Children in literature.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Characters Children.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR878.C5 B47 1999".
- catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
- catalog subject "State, The, in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the rise of the child victim and the state of the novel -- Hideous progeny made clean: heredity and pedagogy in the new poor law writings of James Kay and in Oliver Twist -- In the bosom of the family: Dombey and Son and the wet-nursing debates of William Acton and C.H.F. Routh -- Tender tyranny: the 1839 Custody of Infants Act and custodial incarceration in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Civilization and confession in midcentury representations of infanticide and in Adam Bede -- Conclusion: from pulpy infants to a nation of good animals.".
- catalog title "The child, the state, and the Victorian novel / Laura C. Berry.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".