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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... Adults edited by Naomi J. Miller White Supremacy in Children's Literature Characterizations of African Americans, 1830–1900 by Donnarae MacCann Representing the Holocaust in Youth Literature by Lydia Kokkola Translating for Children by ...
... Adults by Mike Cadden Russian Children's Literature and Culture edited by Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova Twice-Told Children's Tales edited by Betty Greenway The Outside Child In and Out of the Book by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs Diana ...
... adults. Children are no longer seen as passive well-behaved miniature adults (even though nineteenth-century conduct ... adult and children's fiction) for the impulse to leave out the imagination (the inventive streak, or the intuitive ...
... adult orders, and, at the same time, be allowed to entertain new possibilities for the future and to exercise their will? Indeed, Julian's father, the more illustrious Hawthorne, writes in his “The Paradise of Children,” a rewrite of ...
... adults for the information and internalization of children which must meet the approbation of adults” (p. 19). How does one incite children into action, and how are children's writers complicit in keeping children passive? What is the adult ...
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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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