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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... girl”: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans Roxanne Harde 55 Part II Politicizing Children: “Normalization” and the Place of the Marginalized Child 67 Chapter 5 “A is an Abolitionist”: The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy ...
... Girls and Boys(1850), about two orphan children: the boy, Epimetheus, plays it safe, and the girl, Pandora, is feisty, creative, and resists authority. She does remark sadly about Epimetheus, “What a dull boy he is! ... I do wish he had ...
... girls, such as Alcott's “Nelly's Hospital,” girls are taught to do what they know best, to nurture and heal. As Fahs (2001) points out, “the war ... was portrayed and perceived as part of a new adventurous individualism, with war itself ...
... Girls in 1873 to show the contradictory treatment of class and gender by that publication. Roxanne Harde's Chapter 4 discusses the controversial orphanage system as seen through the lens of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's fiction. In the ...
... 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 been especially celebrated as part of the effort to recover women's ...
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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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