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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... Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction for Children Lesley Ginsberg Chapter 8 Shut-ins, Shut-outs, and Spofford's Other Children: The Hester Stanley Stories Rita Bode Part III Sentimental and Realistic Constructs of ...
... of adult and juvenile fiction, Sánchez-Eppler reveals how children become vehicles of national reform, even if their agendas are limited as she and circumscribed by their parents'/teachers' attitudes toward class and race.
... race and by national imperialist politics. Sánchez-Eppler has a tendency to use adult writers to portray images of children in adult literature: for example, she focuses on Hawthorne's concept of the child, in Pearl/The Scarlet Letter ...
... 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 ...
... Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to 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 ...
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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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