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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... a foreign court, he will do his work all the better, instead of worse, for having been allowed expansion on the ideal plane” (p. 111). Putting aside the gender imbalance of this prescript, one wonders about the fate of the boy cleaning a ...
... the practical or less pleasant side of life? Is it possible to tell the truth, or do we seek to shelter children ... on a contradictory level: it “curtails the view of the young reader” but “sometimes even seeks to contain the mind with ...
... on the image of the “idealized child” of juvenile fiction, Shaker shows that women were still stuck in a type of sentimental time warp: “Though ... the positive effect of political engagement, but the stories do not dwell upon the.
... the child's imagination and to dash his hopes for the future. The children's writers do not necessarily find a solution, but they expose the problem, and by working with (or “playing” with, from the child's perspective) the differences ...
... The Juvenile Miscellany and The Youth's Companion Lorinda B. Cohoon DOI: 10.4324/9780203928448-3 During the 1830s ... on childhood citizenship and intervening in the educations of boys and sometimes girls. Both writers drew on the ...
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Constructing Exclusion in | |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelpss Orphans | |
Normalization and the Place of | |
Lucky and in Antebellum America | |
Lesley Ginsberg | |
Stoddards Lolly Dinkss Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions | |
Era Writers | |
Childs Garden | |
Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Childs Mind | |
Stahl | |
Mark Twain and G Stanley Hall | |
Huckleberry Finn 1885 What Maisie Knew 1897 and the Birth of Child | |
Contributors | |
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