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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... poems they published, is the ability of women to intervene in the moral and civic education of children. As Linda Kerber (1986) notes in her work on Republican motherhood, mothers in America were given the task of educating their sons ...
... poems that explore childhood sickness and infant death. Janet Gray writes in Race and Time: American Women's Poetics ... poem asks for sympathy for racial Others, further examination will show that it also reinforces the centrality of ...
... poems involves acknowledging the racism, classism, and imperialism that permeates significant critiques of citizenships available to women and children in the United States. One of the private topics on which Sigourney's contributions ...
... poem expresses a yearning for “bright” and “joyous” citizenships that are not available to “mortals.” At the same ... poem that explores power. It appears in the same issue as Sigourney's “An Infant's Spirit.” This poem offers insight ...
... poems about live children. Sigourney's poem titled “The Little Hand” examines how national and international experiences of war, cruelty, and oppression will be part of the adulthoods that follow childhood, especially for boys. As a ...
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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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