Toy stories : analyzing the child in nineteenth-century literature /

"Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, thes...

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Main Author: Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
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