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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... Moral Pitfalls 1 Chapter 1 “A Just, A Useful Part”: Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Contributions to The Juvenile Miscellany and The Youth's Companion Lorinda B. Cohoon 3 Chapter 2 Charitable (Mis)givings and the ...
... moral values and political views, and as such, for good or for ill, they become the promulgators of culture for future generations. In his essay “Literature for Children” (1887), Julian Hawthorne recalls the art of his master ...
... moral citizens (by instilling fear) and to allow them free rein of the imagination—are not necessarily compatible and require a certain kind of instruction book! How do we turn children into free citizens, who will follow adult orders ...
... , “Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls,” four chapters address the question of civic responsibility in children's literature. This part, focusing on children's popular journals, revolves around the idea xxii. •. Introduction.
... life in nineteenth-century American literature may have a transformative effect, as they can lead to a utopian vision for the future, either through an optimistic affirmation of human goodness and morality or Introduction. •. xxiii.
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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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