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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... in Books for Children, 1850–1900 Eric S. Hintz 197 Chapter 14 Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association J.D. Stahl 213 Chapter 15 Good Masters: Child–Animal Relationships in the Writings of x. •. Contents.
... Relationships in the Writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall Joan Menefee 227 Chapter 16 Child Consciousness in the American Novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie Knew (1897), and the Birth of Child Psychology ...
... relationship between the child and the natural world by investigating the “recapitulationist” paradigm of nineteenth-century child psychology and children's relationship to animals. In a fitting concluding chapter, Holly Blackford ...
... focus on children at home, at school, and at play. Sigourney's poetry frequently examines mother–child relationships, with poems that make wishes for sons and daughters growing up Sigourney and Sedgwick's Journal Contributions. •. 5.
... relationships might shape the public politics of their sons while constructing girls and women as partners and allies who can identify with the private examples used to critique the patriarchal culture. When their texts have been ...
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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