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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... Live Geese Feathers.” 110 Figure 7.3: “How Would You Like It?/'Come, you must have your ears clipped.'” Hearth and Home. 111 Figure 7.4: “Put Yourself in his Place/'We've caught the fellow at last.'” Hearth and Home. 112 Figure 8.1 ...
... lives, especially in moments of crisis. For example, James Marten and Alice Fahs make compelling cases for the proactive child during the Civil War. Using primary sources, social historian James Marten looks at the experiences of ...
... lives of mothers and children, they also reference national policies on slavery, the Indian Removal Acts, and imperial expansion, and show their close connection to domestic and the filial spheres. Both writers' periodical contributions ...
... live children. Sigourney's poem titled “The Little Hand” examines how national and international experiences of war, cruelty, and oppression will be part of the adulthoods that follow childhood, especially for boys. As a prayer for an ...
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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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