The Making of the Modern Child

Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century

By Andrew O'Malley

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The Making of the Modern Childn explores how the concept of childhood in the late 18th century constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical and medical texts of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social reform.