Andrew (Ryerson University, Canada) O’Malley 
The Making of the Modern Child [EPUB ebook] 
Children’s Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century

This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children »s literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O »Malley ties the evolution of the idea of ‘the child’ to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social reform.