Dennis Denisoff (ed.), The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture

Abstract

We often have the feeling today that children are turned into voracious consumers even before they leave their cradles. In fact, as Dennis Denisoff’s edited collection, The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, points out, the targeting of young people by consumer culture started decades before, at a time when the definition of the child was changing and consumer culture boomed, modelling identity and children in need of influence and control. As Denisoff’s introduction underlines, n...