Anja M?ller
Ashgate
Hardback
260
2006
This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood exploring the establishment of the category of age as a marker of social distinction alongside race class and gender. Ranging from scientific legal and educational discourses on the child to the child as artist and consumer the essays shed light on well-known novels and on less-familiar texts such as periodicals medical writings and trial reports.