Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s LiteratureMonika Elbert Routledge, 09/06/2008 - 312 páginas "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. |
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... follow adult orders, and, at the same time, be allowed to entertain new possibilities for the future and to exercise their will? Indeed, Julian's father, the more illustrious Hawthorne, writes in his “The Paradise of Children,” a ...
... follow his parents' will and submit to a preordained education: “There is not a child in the land that can call his soul, or his body, or his jacket his own. A little soft lump of clay he comes into the world, and is moulded [sic] into ...
... the nomad space: even though the nomadic trajectory may follow trails or customary routes, it does not fulfill the function of the sedentary road, which is to parcel out a closed space to people, assigning each person a share 3.
... follow childhood, especially for boys. As a prayer for an infant boy, the narrative voice asks the Almighty to keep the little hand from the evils of citizenship: From cruel war's discolored blade, From withering penury's pain; From ...
... follow. Other poems draw on the natural world to discuss adult citizenship rights to own and exchange property. Sigourney's poem “The Crop of Acorns” (1840) comments on rights and privileges that are won by trickery and deceit. This ...
Índice
Normalization and the Place of the Marginalized Child | 67 |
Part III Sentimental and Realistic Constructs of Childhood | 131 |
Part IV Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Childs Mind | 195 |
Contributors | 259 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 279 |
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