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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... question Julian Hawthorne poses here reflects a higher realm of aspiration for America's children, as it relates to spirituality and to the “eternal.” Less secular, more mystical, his plea also demands a recognition of the need for the ...
... question, then, is whether the business of telling children's stories becomes an adult enterprise, or whether children are enterprising enough to resist the indoctrination of the children's publishing enterprise and to decipher covert ...
... question of civic responsibility in children's literature. This part, focusing on children's popular journals, revolves around the idea of citizenship, ethics, and methods of inclusion and exclusion. In Chapter 1, Lorinda B. Cohoon ...
... question ideals of domesticity and true womanhood. Chapter 11 by Melanie Dawson shows the common denominator between white and American Indian memoir-writers at the turn of the twentieth century in terms of a sentimental backward glance ...
... questions about representations of women in their children's literature. This chapter also explores women writers' use of what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1987) might term the “nomad space” of children's periodicals, a space ...
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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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