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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... citizenship of geniuses, as Emerson would have it when he discussed genius as not privileged but “the sound estate of every man” in “The American Scholar” (1837) how does one exercise its power, especially in a society that preaches ...
... citizenship, ethics, and methods of inclusion and exclusion. In Chapter 1, Lorinda B. Cohoon shows how Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick use the domestic sphere to consider citizenship and national identity while ...
... citizenship and intervening in the educations of boys and sometimes girls. Both writers drew on the domestic sphere to meditate on public issues that connect to citizenship and national identity. Sedgwick's work for adult readers has ...
... citizenship, race, and the treatment of Native Americans.4 In addition to editing the Juvenile Miscellany, Lydia Maria Child also made contributions to it that highlight her awareness of the complexity of American women's positions in a ...
... citizenship.8 Both writers draw from topics that focus on children at home, at school, and at play. Sigourney's poetry frequently examines mother–child relationships, with poems that make wishes for sons and daughters growing up ...
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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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