Description |
1 online resource (309 pages) |
Series |
Children's Literature and Culture
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Contents |
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls -- Chapter One "A Just, A Useful Part": Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Contributions to The Juvenile Miscellany and The Youth's Companion -- Chapter Two Charitable (Mis)givings and the Aesthetics of Poverty in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Stories -- Chapter Three "Hints Dropped Here and There": Constructing Exclusion in St. Nicholas, Volume I -- Chapter Four "One extra little girl": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans -- Part II Politicizing Children: "Normalization" and the Place of the Marginalized Child -- Chapter Five "A is an Abolitionist": The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy -- Chapter Six Overcoming Racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in Antebellum America -- Chapter Seven "I am your slave for love": Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction for Children -- Chapter Eight Shut-ins, Shut-outs, and Spofford's Other Children: The Hester Stanley Stories -- Part III Sentimental and Realistic Constructs of Childhood -- Chapter Nine Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America -- Chapter Ten "The cleverest children's book written here": Elizabeth Stoddard's Lolly Dinks's Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions -- Chapter Eleven A Sentimental Childhood: The Unlikely Memoirs of Realist-Era Writers -- Chapter Twelve The Cultural Work of Kate Douglas Wiggin: Cultivating the Child's Garden -- Part IV Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Child's Mind -- Chapter Thirteen "Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop": Invention and Technology in Books for Children, 1850-1900 -- Chapter Fourteen Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association |
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Chapter Fifteen Good Masters: Child-Animal Relationships in the Writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall -- Chapter Sixteen Child Consciousness in the American Novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie Knew (1897), and the Birth of Child Psychology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
"Recommended" by Choice Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children's perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as representatives of a new order, or as receptacles of the transmitted values of their parents. The question, then, is whether the business of telling children's stories becomes an adult enterprise of conservative indoctrination, or whether children are enterprising enough to read what many of the contributors to this volume see as the subversive potential of these texts. This collection of literary and historical criticism of nineteenth-century American children's literature draws upon recent assessments of canon formations, gender studies, and cultural studies to show how concepts of public/private, male/female, and domestic/foreign are collapsed to reveal a picture of American childhood and life that is expansive and constrictive at the same time |
Notes |
ProQuest Ebook Central ATO Loan |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index |
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
Subject |
Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Children -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Children''s literature, American -- History and criticism
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Socialization -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Social values in literature
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Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Children's literature, American -- History and criticism
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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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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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LC no. |
2007042309 |
ISBN |
9780203928448 |
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