British Children's Literature and Material Culture

Download or read book British Children's Literature and Material Culture written by Jane Suzanne Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: 'Devoured by a Desire to Possess': Children's Literature, Commodities & Consumption -- Remarkable and Perplexing Items: Children and the Great Exhibition -- The Wonders of Common Things: Worldly Goods in the Nineteenth Century -- A Hailstorm of Knitting Needles: Otherworldly Goods and Domestic Fantasy -- 'A Disgraceful State of Things': Bad Consumers and Bad Commodities -- Conclusions: Failed Palaces and Magic Cities.