Ringel, Paul B.,  1968- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781613763803 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Child consumers--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Child consumers--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Children--Books and reading--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Children--Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Children's periodicals, American--History--20th century.<br/>Children's periodicals, American--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN4878  / .C666 2015