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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... means of exploring their own positions on women's roles in the relatively new nation. While women could supplement their income through writing, in many cases, the content of the pieces was frequently controlled by men who owned the ...
... means of broaching questions of power. Writing about death and responding to other areas of life that are associated with pain and sorrow through art become strategies for gaining or understanding power. “Vocal Music” (1840) provides an ...
... Means and Ends, or Self-Training,'” it shares the space of the page with a serialized novel titled Factory Boy ... mean an entirely different set of learning practices. The article recounts a discussion by a class of girls about the ...
... a form that promotes an activist stance on slavery. Domestic abolitionists “took advantage of the acceptability of domestic fiction, the rising cult of motherhood and childhood, and the increasing market for juvenile literature as a means.
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Constructing Exclusion in | |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelpss Orphans | |
Normalization and the Place of | |
Lucky and in Antebellum America | |
Lesley Ginsberg | |
Stoddards Lolly Dinkss Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions | |
Era Writers | |
Childs Garden | |
Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Childs Mind | |
Stahl | |
Mark Twain and G Stanley Hall | |
Huckleberry Finn 1885 What Maisie Knew 1897 and the Birth of Child | |
Contributors | |
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