Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s LiteratureMonika Elbert Routledge, 9 Jun 2008 - 312 halaman "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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... ” and the Place of the Marginalized Child 67 Chapter 5 “A is an Abolitionist”: The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy Martha L. Sledge 69 Chapter 6 Overcoming Racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow ix Contents.
... Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in Antebellum America Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling 83 Chapter 7 “I am your slave for love”: Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction for Children Lesley Ginsberg ...
... Abbott and Horatio Alger are missing. Or she looks at images of children in popular culture, as in photos of dead children (or memento mori). By contrast, the chapters forming Enterprising Youth seek to understand the world (and ...
... Abbott's five-volume book series (1859–60) to discuss racism toward African Americans in the North in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapter 7 by Lesley Ginsberg examines Harriet Beecher Stowe's troublesome writings for children in the ...
... Abbott, for example, felt that rational thinking should be promoted, but that the hearts of his readers should also be touched so that children would make moral decisions. Later, William Taylor Adams, writing under the pseudonym “Oliver ...
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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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