{"product_id":"philanthropy-in-childrens-periodicals-1840-1930-the-charitable-child-9781399521352","title":"Philanthropy in Children's Periodicals, 1840-1930: The Charitable Child","description":"Drawing on a wealth of material from children's periodicals from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century, Kristine Moruzi examines how the concept of the charitable child has been defined through the press. Charitable ideals became increasingly prevalent at a time of burgeoning social inequities and cultural change, shaping expectations that children were capable of and responsible for charitable giving. While the child as the object of charity has received considerable attention, less focus has been paid to how and why children have been encouraged to help others. Yet the ways in which children were positioned to see themselves as people who could and should help - in whatever forms that assistance might take - are crucial to understanding how children and childhood were conceptualised in the past. This book uses children's print culture to examine the relationship between children and charitable institutions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and to foreground children's active roles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She researches historical and contemporary children's literature, with a particular focus on children's periodicals and representations of gender. Her other monographs include \u003ci\u003eFrom Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature (1840-1940)\u003c\/i\u003e (2018, with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford) and \u003ci\u003eConstructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), \u003ci\u003eChildren's Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eAffect, Emotion, and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eColonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \u003ci\u003eGirls' School Stories, 1749-1929\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903727603986,"sku":"9781399521352","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77529b67-072d-428e-9380-65aac9dc6921.jpg?v=1738504946","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/philanthropy-in-childrens-periodicals-1840-1930-the-charitable-child-9781399521352","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}