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By Andrew O'Malley

This book explores how the idea that of adolescence within the late-18th century was constructed in the course of the ideological paintings played by means of kid's literature, in addition to pedagogical writing and scientific literature of the period. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the assumption of "the baby" to the expansion of the center classification, which used the determine of the kid as an emblem in its quite a few demands social reform.

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