Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she teaches Victorian literature. Her books include Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (2016), Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction (2010), and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004). She has also edited collections on Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand (2014), Victorian Settler Narratives (2011), and Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009). Professor Wagner currently works on Victorian babyhood.

• Introduction 1: 'A very Moloch of a baby': Left to be Minded in Dickens 2: 'How I Managed': Victorian Infant Care Instructions 3: Competitive Infant Care in Domestic Fiction: Charlotte Yonge and the Unidealised Baby 4: Sensational Babies Conclusion

Wagner does a terrific job of engaging both with the popular culture of childrearing manuals and-sometimes less familiar-Victorian children's and sensation literature as well as the famous work of Charles Dickens, for instance, and her book is in this respect a real treasure-trove of sections on babies and infants drawn from this wide range of sources.

Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she teaches Victorian literature. Her books include Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (2016), Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction (2010), and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004). She has also edited collections on Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand (2014), Victorian Settler Narratives (2011), and Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009). Professor Wagner currently works on Victorian babyhood.

• Introduction 1: 'A very Moloch of a baby': Left to be Minded in Dickens 2: 'How I Managed': Victorian Infant Care Instructions 3: Competitive Infant Care in Domestic Fiction: Charlotte Yonge and the Unidealised Baby 4: Sensational Babies Conclusion

Wagner does a terrific job of engaging both with the popular culture of childrearing manuals and-sometimes less familiar-Victorian children's and sensation literature as well as the famous work of Charles Dickens, for instance, and her book is in this respect a real treasure-trove of sections on babies and infants drawn from this wide range of sources.

Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she teaches Victorian literature. Her books include Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (2016), Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction (2010), and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004). She has also edited collections on Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand (2014), Victorian Settler Narratives (2011), and Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009). Professor Wagner currently works on Victorian babyhood.

• Introduction 1: 'A very Moloch of a baby': Left to be Minded in Dickens 2: 'How I Managed': Victorian Infant Care Instructions 3: Competitive Infant Care in Domestic Fiction: Charlotte Yonge and the Unidealised Baby 4: Sensational Babies Conclusion

Wagner does a terrific job of engaging both with the popular culture of childrearing manuals and-sometimes less familiar-Victorian children's and sensation literature as well as the famous work of Charles Dickens, for instance, and her book is in this respect a real treasure-trove of sections on babies and infants drawn from this wide range of sources.