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Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through consumer culture. While beauty has often been approached in relation to aestheticism and the visual arts in this period, this monograph offers a new and significant focus on how beauty was reshaped in girls' and women's magazines, beauty manuals and fiction during the rise of consumer culture. These archival sources reveal important historical changes in how femininity was shaped and illuminate how contemporary ideas of female beauty, and the methods by which they are disseminated, originated in seismic shifts in 19th-century print culture.

English literature --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature. --- Popular literature --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain

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The most wide-ranging study of the history of children’s periodicals to date/h4ulliComprises thirty-three chapters on the history of children’s periodicals from both well-established and emerging scholars, reflecting current work in the field/liliBrings together cutting-edge research that spans a variety of research specialisms, time periods, and geographical locations/liliOffers new insights into an area of children’s literature and culture that has often been unjustly marginalised/liliOffers models for working with historical periodicals for children that will help to open up new avenues and develop future work in the field/li/ulpSince the publication of the first children’s periodical in the 1750s, magazines have been an affordable and accessible way for children to read and form virtual communities. Despite the range of children’s periodicals that exist, they have not been studied to the same extent as children’s literature. iThe Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals/i marks the first major history of magazines for young people from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Bringing together periodicals from Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand and India, this book explores the roles of gender, race and national identity in the construction of children as readers and writers. It provides new insights both into how child readers shaped the magazines they read and how magazines have encouraged children to view themselves as political and world subjects.