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Author: Tamara S. Wagner (Associate Professor of Victorian Literature, Nanyang Technological University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 24.00cm
, Length: 2.50cm
Weight: 0.642kg
ISBN: 9780198858010
ISBN 10: 0198858019
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 27 October 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Wagner does a terrific job of engaging both with the popular culture of childrearing manuals and-sometimes less familiar-Victorian children's and sensation literature as well as the famous work of Charles Dickens, for instance, and her book is in this respect a real treasure-trove of sections on babies and infants drawn from this wide range of sources. * Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Modern Language Review * In this masterful exploration of literary babies, Wagner exposes the many roles that babies have in Victorian writing ... Thoroughly researched and grounded in historical debates on infant care, this book offers a complex picture of infant characterization ... Wagner investigates the contradictory nature of idealized versus strictly commodified babies in ways that will resonate today. Scholars of the Victorian Age will appreciate this close examination of the youngest literary characters. * C. L. Bandish, CHOICE *
In this masterful exploration of literary babies, Wagner exposes the many roles that babies have in Victorian writing ... Thoroughly researched and grounded in historical debates on infant care, this book offers a complex picture of infant characterization ... Wagner investigates the contradictory nature of idealized versus strictly commodified babies in ways that will resonate today. Scholars of the Victorian Age will appreciate this close examination of the youngest literary characters. * C. L. Bandish, CHOICE *
Author Information
Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she teaches Victorian literature. Her books include Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (2016), Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction (2010), and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004). She has also edited collections on Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand (2014), Victorian Settler Narratives (2011), and Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009). Professor Wagner currently works on Victorian babyhood.
