{"product_id":"the-victorian-baby-in-print-infancy-infant-care-and-nineteenth-century-popular-culture-hardcover","title":"The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTamara S. Wagner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture\u003c\/em\u003e explores the representation of babyhood in Victorian Britain. The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture, this critical analysis discusses the changing roles of an iconic figure. A close look at the wide-ranging portrayal of infants and infant care not only reveals how divergent and often contradictory Victorian attitudes to infancy really were, but also challenges persistent clichés surrounding the literary baby that emerged or were consolidated at the time, and which are largely still with us. Drawing on a variety of texts, including novels by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, and Charlotte Yonge, as well as parenting magazines of the time, childrearing manuals, and advertisements, this study analyses how their representations of infancy and infant care utilised and shaped an iconography that has become definitional of the Victorian age itself. The familiar clichés surrounding the Victorian baby have had a lasting impact on the way we see both the Victorians and babies, and a critical reconsideration might also prompt a self-critical reconsideration of the still burgeoning market for infant care advice today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamara S. Wagner, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Victorian Literature, Nanyang Technological University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she teaches Victorian literature. Her books include \u003cem\u003eVictorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eFinancial Speculation in Victorian Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and \u003cem\u003eLonging: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890\u003c\/em\u003e (2004). She has also edited collections on \u003cem\u003eDomestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003eVictorian Settler Narratives\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and \u003cem\u003eAntifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). Professor Wagner currently works on Victorian babyhood.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377356366131,"sku":"9780198858010","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/L2r8EsVM2z9780198858010.webp?v=1779321055","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-victorian-baby-in-print-infancy-infant-care-and-nineteenth-century-popular-culture-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}