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Victorian Childhood (Jordan, Thomas E.)
Victorian Childhood
Untertitel Themes and Variations
Autor Jordan, Thomas E.
Verlag SUNY Press
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 1987
Seiten 408 S.
Artikelnummer 1762326
ISBN 978-0-88706-545-3
CHF 53.90
Zusammenfassung

This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based on sound historiography. Against a backdrop of the industrial revolution, an expanding economy, and a rising standard of living, Victorian Childhood explores life and death, child development, the family, work, education, social life, cities, crime, and advocacy and reform. Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace, the author demonstrates that they did not share proportionately in the increased standard of living. Jordan's book is a unique piece of scholarship in its range, focus, and presentation. Original sources such as diaries and memoirs not previously cited elsewhere, literature from the period, and anecdotes from the children themselves animate the statistical background and provide vivid pictures of their lives.

Thomas E. Jordan is Curators' Professor of Child Development at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Victorian Childhood: Themes and Variations also published by SUNY Press.