Andrew O’Malley is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University, Canada.

'I would certainly recommend this work to anyone interested in the history of childhood and its literatures. The scholarship is exemplary, and I was constantly discovering things that I should have known but did not. The theory is sound and not so obtrusive as to detract from the analysis it supports, and what the arguement lacks in scope it makes up for in detail.'- John Morgenstern, Mount Saint Vincent University

• Introduction: The English Middle Classes of the Late Eighteenth Century and the Impetus for Pedagogical Reform 1. The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature 2. Class Relations in Middle-Class Children's Literature: Interacting with and Representing the Poor and the Rich 3. The Medical Management of the Late Eighteenth-Century Child 4. Towards the Self-Regulating Subject: Teaching Discipline in Pedagogical Systems and Children's Books 5. Molding the Middle-Class Subject of the Future: Applied Lessons and the Construction of Gender Roles Conclusion: he Trajectory of Children's Literature into the Early Nineteenth Century: Moving Towards a Middle-Class Form of Fantasy Notes Works Cited