Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918 /

Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918 / Paul B. Ringel.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ringel, Paul B., 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
Series:	Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Subjects:	Children's periodicals, American > History > 19th century. Children's periodicals, American > History > 20th century. Children > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century. Children > Books and reading > United States > History > 20th century. Child consumers > United States > History > 19th century. Child consumers > United States > History > 20th century. Child consumers. Children > Books and reading. Children's periodicals, American. United States. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Establishing children's magazines, 1823/1856. Deacon Willis's Companion
Aunt Maria's Miscellany and the limits of gentility
Commercializing children's magazines, 1857/1873. Perry Mason and sensational gentility
The youth's companion and the Civil War
The cultural custodians
The jack-in-the-pulpit
Sustaining children's magazines, 1873/1918. Tales and the city
Children's magazines and modern childhood
Epilogue.