Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives

226 Pages·2018·27.821 MB·English

by  Jane Eva Baxter, Meredith A.B. Ellis

Nineteenth Century Childhoods
in Interdisciplinary and
International Perspectives

Childhood in the Past Monograph Series: Volume 6
Nineteenth Century
Childhoods in
Interdisciplinary and
International Perspectives
edited by
Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith A. B. Ellis
Oxford & Philadelphia
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Contents
List of contributors ...............................................................................................................vii
Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................x
Introduction: 19th century childhoods in interdisciplinary
and international perspectives .............................................................................................1
Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith Ellis
Part 1: Children, nationalism and dimensions of identity
1. The manipulation of indigenous imagery to represent Canadian
childhood and nationhood in 19th century Canada ..................................................15
Loren Lerner
2. Laying the foundation of “modern childhood” in Russia: the “protection
of motherhood and infancy” movement, 1890–1917.................................................34
Natalia Chernyaeva
3. Imagining futures: Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne
on women, children and history ...................................................................................49
Gina Ocasion
Part 2: Children on the move: immigration, emigration and deportation
4. Becoming Canadian adults: British childhood emigration to Canada
in the late 19th century ..................................................................................................63
Steven J. Taylor
5. Transported beyond the seas: criminal juveniles ......................................................75
Emma Watkins
Part 3: Children, consumerism and advertising
6. “He knows a good thing when he sees it!”: advertising to children
in the U.S., 1850–1900 .....................................................................................................91
Jaclyn N. Schultz
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7. Creating desire and little consumers: doll advertising
in U.S. newspapers, 1860–1900 .................................................................................107
Katherine Mumma and Jane Eva Baxter
Part 4: Institutions for children and children in institutions
8. Education, race and nation-building in an archipelago:
19th century Bahamian Out Island schools ............................................................127
John Burton
9. It takes a village: raising patriots in 19th century Romania ...............................139
Ana Fumurescu
10. The Bedford Asylum: building for the “Industrious Child”
in early 19th century Dublin .....................................................................................153
Katherine Fennelly
11. Nineteenth century institutional “education”: a spatial approach to
assimilation and resistance at Hoopa Valley Indian School ................................166
Paulina F. Przystupa
Part 5: Children’s bodies and children’s lives
12. “The lowness of stature, the leanness and the paleness”:
childhood nutritional health in 19th century England ........................................181
Holly Hunt-Watts, Janet Cade and Dawn M. Hadley
13. A tool for moral uplift: the sacralization and commemoration
of a 19th century child actress .................................................................................201
Shauna Vey
Contributors
JANE EVA BAXTER is an Associate Professor of Lenin Ave, Room #318, Yekaterinburg, Russian
Anthropology at DePaul University in Chicago, Federation, 620075.
USA. She is a historical (post-medieval) Email: [email protected];
archaeologist who has written extensively on [email protected]
the archaeology of children and childhood
including The Archaeology of Childhood: Children, MEREDITH A.B. ELLIS is an Assistant Professor of
Gender, and Material Culture (2nd edition, Rowan Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University
and Littlefi eld, 2018). Address: 2343 North in Boca Raton, USA. She is an historical
Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. bioarchaeologist who focuses on social
Email: [email protected] bioarchaeology and studies subadult skeletal
remains, particularly within the context of
JOHN BURTON is an Associate Professor in the 19th century United States. Address: 777
History at DePaul University with a focus on Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431.
the history of the Bahamas during the late Email: [email protected]
18th and 19th centuries. He was co-director
with Jane Baxter of several fi eld excavations KATHERINE FENNELLY is a Lecturer in Heritage
of Loyalist plantations on the island of San at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is an
Salvador. Address: 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., historical archaeologist of the post-medieval
Chicago, IL 60614. period, with a research focus on institutions
E-mail: [email protected] for public health and welfare, built heritage,
and the industrial city. Address: School of
JANET CADE is Professor in the School of Food History and Heritage, University of Lincoln,
Science and Nutrition at the University of Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK.
Leeds, where she is leader of the Nutritional Email: [email protected]
Epidemiology Group. Her research focusses on
development of dietary assessment methods ANA FUMURESCU is a doctoral student in
for use in health research, and the study of the History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
impact of nutrition interventions on health. Her research explores questions of nation-
She has published widely on the relationships building and identity-formation in 19th and
between diet and health in contemporary early 20th century Romania, with a focus
society in the United Kingdom. on borderlands. Address: 6211 Portal Dr.,
Houston, TX 77096.
NATASHA CHERNYAEVA is a Senior Researcher at Email: [email protected]
the Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg,
Russia. She is a philosopher and a gender DAWN M. HADLEY is Professor of Medieval
studies scholar, whose work focuses on the Archaeology at the University of Sheffi eld. Her
politics of motherhood and childhood in publications on the archaeology of childhood
19th century and Soviet Russia. Address: 51 include the Society for the Study of Childhood
viii Contributors
in the Past monograph she co-edited with Katie is an American Studies scholar who focuses
A. Hemer, Medieval Childhood: Archaeological on popular children’s culture and studies
Approaches (2014) and the Oxford Handbook American and Native American literary and
of the Archaeology of Childhood (co-edited legal representation through 19th and 20th
with Sally Crawford and Gillian Shepherd; century historical narratives.
2018). She has also published on aspects of Email: [email protected]
nineteenth-century working-class childhood,
and childhood in the Viking Age. PAULINA F. PRZYSTUPA is a graduate student in the
Department of Anthropology at the University
HOLLY HUNT-WATTS is a Ph.D. candidate at the of New Mexico in Albuquerque, USA. She
University of Leeds, UK, who has a background is a historical landscape archaeologist who
in osteoarchaeology. Her thesis explores the focuses on the interaction between learning
changes in English nutritional health since culture and the way that humans structure
the 19th century, with a focus on public health their physical world. Address: MSC01-
policy development. Address: School of Food 1040, Anthropology 1, University of New
Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-108.
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
JACLYN N. SCHULTZ is a historian of 19th century
LOREN LERNER is a professor of Art History at childhood, race and cultures of consumerism
Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, was in the U.S. and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in
curator of ‘Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood History at the University of California – Santa
at the McCord Museum’ (2005) and editor Cruz, USA. She has published in the Wisconsin
of Depicting Canada’s Children (Wilfrid Laurier Magazine of History (“The Eagle or the Lion”,
Press, 2009). Journal articles and essays from Autumn 2017) and held fellowships at
2007 to 2016 on images of Canada’s young people Winterthur Library, the Virginia Historical
appear in Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Society, and the American Antiquarian Society.
Women and Art in Canada, 1850–1970, Canadian Address: 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Children’s Literature, Journal of Canadian Art 95064.
History, Journal of the History of Childhood and Email: [email protected]
Youth, Girlhood Studies, Historical Studies in
Education, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of STEVEN J. TAYLOR is a Teaching Fellow in the
Canada, Healing the World’s Children and Girlhood History of Poverty and Medicine at the School
and the Politics of Place. Address: 411 Lansdowne of History, University of Leicester, UK. His
Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, Canada H3Y2V4. research interests explore the various social
Email: [email protected] and economic circumstances that led families
to seek alternative methods of care for their
KATHERINE MUMMA is a graduate of DePaul off spring and how these diff ered at inter-
University in Chicago, USA, where she earned and intra-regional levels to create numerous
her B.A. in Chinese Studies and Anthropology. welfare systems operating in England under
Email: [email protected] and outside of centralized legislation. His fi rst
monograph, Beyond the Asylum: Child Insanity in
GINA MARIE OCASION is a Research Associate with England, 1845–1907 was published by Palgrave
the Five College Women’s Studies Research Macmillan in 2017.
Center, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. She Email: [email protected]
Contributors ix
SHAUNA VEY is a Professor at NYC College of EMMA D. WATKINS is undertaking her thesis,
Technology of the City University of New entitled The lives and criminal careers of juvenile
York, is a theatre historian and the author off enders, at the University of Liverpool, UK.
of Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Her research uses a life-course record linkage
Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile to uncover historical lives. Address: Eleanor
Actors (Southern Illinois University Press, Rathbone Building, Bedford Street, South
2015). Address: 325 Riverside Drive, NY, NY Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK.
10025. Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]