Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

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Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals is written by Michelle J. Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399506668 (ISBN 10) and 9781399506663 (ISBN 13).

Since 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. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals 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.