| Description |
xxiv, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A just, a useful part : Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's contributions to The juvenile miscellany and The youth's companion / Lorinda B. Cohoon -- Charitable (mis)givings and the aesthetics of poverty in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas stories / Monika Elbert -- Hints dropped here and there : constructing exclusion in St. Nicholas, volume I / Janet Gray and Melissa Fowler -- One extra little girl : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans / Roxanne Harde -- A is an abolitionist : The anti-slavery alphabet and the politics of literacy / Martha L. Sledge -- Overcoming racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in antebellum America / Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling -- I am your slave for love : race, sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction for children / Lesley Ginsberg -- Shut-ins, shut-outs, and Spofford's other children : the Hester Stanley stories / Rita Bode -- Robinson Crusoe and the shaping of masculinity in nineteenth-century America / Shawn Thomson -- The cleverest children's book written here : Elizabeth Stoddard's Lolly Dinks's doings and the subversion of social conventions / Maria Holmgren Troy -- A sentimental childhood : the unlikely memoirs of realist-era writers / Melanie Dawson -- The cultural work of Kate Douglas Wiggin : cultivating the child's garden / Anne Lundin -- Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop : invention and technology in books for children, 1850-1990 / Eric S. Hintz -- Natural history for children and the Agassiz Association / J.D. Stahl -- Good masters : child-animal relationships in the writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall / Joan Menefee -- Child consciousness in the American novel : adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie knew (1897), and the birth of child psychology / Holly Blackford |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index |
| Subject |
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism
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Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Social values in literature
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Children -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Socialization -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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| Reading List |
ALL228 recommended text 2024
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| Author |
Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-
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| LC no. |
2007042309 |
| ISBN |
9780415961509 |
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0415961505 |
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