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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... become the promulgators of culture for future generations. In his essay “Literature for Children” (1887), Julian ... becomes a failed writer of children's stories, he does call for a balance in the ideal and practical approach to the ...
... becomes an adult enterprise, or whether children are enterprising enough to resist the indoctrination of the children's publishing enterprise and to decipher covert subversive messages encoded in the texts by the children's authors. And ...
... become monsters (dwarves and hobgoblins) by our giving them permission to be utopian and to dream in a society that demands conformity? And, if fantasies or dreams are encouraged, are they solipsistic —do children grow up unaware of ...
... become an ideal mother, for the benefit of the entire community: “because the children of the virtuous must breathe the atmosphere exhaled by the vicious” (quoted in Vallone 1995: 136). Other recent cultural historians and literary ...
... become complex mixtures of well-organized striations that characterize sedentary space and the open smoothness that marks the nomad space. The children's periodicals of the early national period served as a regular outlet for Sigourney ...
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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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