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 connect women's experiences to children's poetry, and they do make use of simple diction and masking techniques that Gray describes. At first glance, many of the poems read as simple sentimental and didactic pieces; there are poems ...
... 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 ...
... poem that explores power. It appears in the same issue as Sigourney's “An Infant's Spirit.” This poem offers insight into early nineteenth-century attitudes about artistic responses to everyday difficulties: Sing at your work—'twill ...
... poem focuses on using song to lighten the “labors”—presumably domestic labors—it also mentions using music to dispel sorrow. The pain caused by sorrow can be powerful enough to have “dominion,” but music and artistic expression can ...
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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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