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

Ringel, Paul B., 1968-

Commercializing childhood : children's magazines, urban gentility, and the ideal of the American child, 1823-1918 / Paul B. Ringel. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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Child consumers--History--United States--20th century.
Child consumers--History--United States--19th century.
Children--Books and reading--History--United States--20th century.
Children--Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.
Children's periodicals, American--History--20th century.
Children's periodicals, American--History--19th century.


Electronic Books.

PN4878 / .C666 2015