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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... Racial Formations in Kate Chopin's Youth Companion Stories, the liberating posture of Kate Chopin as a woman writer, but also reveals her conservative attitudes, in her stories for the bestselling juvenile periodical, Youth's Companion ...
... racial interests” (p. 59). I would also add that the middle-class discourse of maternal love was skewed in its sense of charity's recipients. As the reformer Bradford Peirce announced to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1857, the ...
... Racial Modernity (2004), and contributor to this volume, is certainly justified in discussing the discourse of exclusion in children's literature. She analyzes the theory of class stratification in Mary Mapes Dodge's prospectus for the ...
... Racial Modernity (2004) that “poetry and childhood were entwined throughout the nineteenth century” and that women used childhood to play with ideas about progress and political change and also to avoid exploring these issues: [w]riting ...
... nation building. In “'Let Her White Progeny Offset Her Dark One': The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making,” Caroline Levander argues that theories of childhood and Sigourney and Sedgwick's Journal Contributions. •. 9.
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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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