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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... in Books for Children, 1850–1900 Eric S. Hintz 197 Chapter 14 Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association J.D. Stahl 213 Chapter 15 Good Masters: Child–Animal Relationships in the Writings of x. •. Contents.
... nature, to ground him in moral principles, and to make him comprehend and fear—nominally, God, but really—society” (p. 110). This didactic and pragmatic approach—to make children good (and fearful!) citizens of a democracy (through ...
... nature of middle-class responsibility toward the underclass. In Chapter 3, Janet Gray collaborates with her recent graduate students on a study of the founding of St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls in 1873 ...
... natural world by investigating the “recapitulationist” paradigm of nineteenth-century child psychology and children's ... nature and attempt to preserve the child's voice, or at least have the child rediscover this lost voice. In doing ...
... natural world to discuss adult citizenship rights to own and exchange property. Sigourney's poem “The Crop of Acorns” (1840) comments on rights and privileges that are won by trickery and deceit. This poem, which like many pieces ...
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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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