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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... Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy Martha L. Sledge Chapter 6 Overcoming Racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in Antebellum America Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling Chapter 7 “I am your slave ...
... slavery's destruction of the black child's innocence and the family unit, especially the mother–child bond” (p. 10). Their writing “encouraged children to effect change through activities ranging from liberal, public activism to ...
... slave child, and behind the action, one perceives the white middle-class agenda again. In her analysis of the Oliver Optic series in “Remembering the Civil War in Children's Literature of the 1880s and 1890s,” Fahs (2004) shows quite ...
... Slavery Alphabet invites the abolitionist–student into the world of literacy while excluding the slave. In Chapter 6, Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling focus on the last three volumes of Abbott's five-volume book series (1859 ...
... slavery stories and called on the readers who were mothers and children to take an anti-slavery stance, or to participate in what Deborah De Rosa terms “domestic abolitionism.” 6 The explicitness of Child's anti-slavery stance shortened ...
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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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