Nineteenth Century Collections Online:

Children’s Literature and Childhood

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Explore children's literature from around the world during the nineteenth century

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood documents the growth of children's literature during the nineteenth century and provides legal and sociological texts to contextualize this growth. Included are texts from Europe, Asia, and North America. In its focus and range, this collection opens an array of compelling subjects for research and teaching. Social, moral, economic, and political questions are reflected in children's literature universally, making it a particularly rich trove for academic study. Additionally, intricate illustrations and children's book texts from North Africa are included, as well as full-text, fully searchable content from a broad range of primary sources.

Multidisciplinary in nature, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood provides insights into societal values, interests, and education of the nineteenth century and supports the growing academic interest in this time period. Among the many topics included are:

immigrant children
racial and gender socialization
myths of childhood
children and religion
the changeling in Victorian literature of childhood
fairy tales and realism
conception of childhood
acculturation of children
death in children's fiction

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood includes content from archives and university, public, and national libraries, having been developed for use at academic and research libraries. Included is content from the U.K. National Archives, which features material on child welfare and reform, education, juvenile health, and juvenile crime and detention; the British Library, which includes monographs related to education as well as fiction and a selection of periodicals for children; and the Hine Collection of photographs, which depict child labor in America. We continue to work with the University of Florida, the American Antiquarian Society, and others to provide a full picture of nineteenth-century children's literature and the social construction of children worldwide.

Collections in this Archive

Childhood in the Nineteenth Century: Records from the Home Office
Child Welfare and Reform: Records from the Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security
Education in the Nineteenth Century: Records from the Department of Education and Science
Growing Up in America: Children's Literature of Immigrant Communities
The History of Education: Education and Social Issues
The History of Education: Education of the Handicapped
The History of Education: Psychology
Juvenile Crime and Detention: Records from the Prison Commission
Juvenile Journalists: Selected Amateur Newspapers
Learning and Leisure: A Selection of Children's Literature from the British Library
Selected Titles from the Children's Collection at the American Antiquarian Society
Selections from the Baldwin Library Collection of Historical Children's Literature

FEATURED [PT] REVIEW

“The scope of this digitization project makes it a significant research resource for both scholars and undergraduates. There are several benefits to this scope: the sheer size of the collections; the geographic range including comparative materials from various cultures; and the variety of types of documents including a significant amount of unpublished material . . . . The new platform tools developed for NCCO are impressive and should be useful to scholars as well as students. These include the browse features for 'Exploring Collections,' the search within results features, text analysis tools, and sophisticated image viewing tools.”

- eDesiderata, Center for Research Libraries

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British Studies
European Studies
Humanities & Social Sciences
Sociology
Literature

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Funções e ferramentas da plataforma

Term Frequency

It allows researchers to see the frequency of search terms within content sets to identify central themes and assess how people, places, events and ideas interact and develop over time.

Buscador de temas

Esta herramienta agrupa los temas más comunes y revela conexiones ocultas entre los términos de búsqueda, lo que ayuda a dar forma a la investigación integrando contenidos diversos con información relevante.

Búsquedas simultáneas

Busca al mismo tiempo dentro de los productos complementarios de fuentes primarias, incluidos los ebooks, a través de un entorno de búsqueda unificado que posibilita nuevas e innovadoras conexiones de investigación.

Avaliações e testemunhos

“The ranges of sources of all this material boggled my mind. Yes, some of it is from mainstream publications, but so much of it was from rare, hard-to-find sources that I gained an appreciation for the time and effort it's taken to assemble these vast digitized collections.”

Library Journal

“The British Library is delighted to be partnering with Gale Cengage Learning to provide access to some of our rare and unique holdings from the 19th Century via the innovative Nineteenth Century Collections Online platform. NCCO's options for search and navigation through rich content from many libraries and archives opens up some of our vast collections in ways never possible before.”

Simon Bell, head of strategic partnerships and licensing, the British Library