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Author Zornado, Joseph L

Title Inventing the child : culture, ideology, and the story of childhood / Joseph L. Zornado
Published New York : Garland Pub., 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages)
Series Children's literature and culture
Garland reference library of the humanities.
Garland reference library of the humanities. Children's literature and culture.
Contents History as human relationship -- Freud, Shakespeare, and Hamlet as children's literature -- The Brothers Grimm, the black pedagogy, and the roots of fascist culture -- Victorian imperialism and the golden age of children's literature -- Walt Disney, ideological transposition, and the child -- Maurice Sendak and the detachment child -- The etiology of consumerism
Summary This book traces the historical roots of Western culture's stories of childhood in which the child is subjugated to the adult. Going back 400 years, it looks again at Hamlet, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney cartoons. Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the new millennium. John Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of Calvin, Freud, and Rousseau and culminating with the modern ""consumer"" childhoo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Children -- Social conditions.
Children and adults.
Parent and child.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
Children and adults
Children -- Social conditions
Parent and child
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203906799
9780203906798
0815335245
9780815335245