Abstract:In this article, I analyze the animal materials incorporated into eighteenth-century educational products that were intended to teach children to read. I begin with an ivory alphabet toy and then extend my analysis to children’s books by Sarah Trimmer, John Aikin, and Anna Letitia Barbauld. Working at the intersection of material culture studies and animal studies enables new readings of this collection of familiar didactic texts by connecting the animals represented in them to the animal products used to make… Show more
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