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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... society” (p. 110). This didactic and pragmatic approach—to make children good (and fearful!) citizens of a democracy (through cautionary tales) is countered by the idealistic approach: “But why, in addition to doing this, should we ...
... society that preaches ambition, competition, inequality, and exclusion? How do the musings of the mediocre facilitate a better life style, if capitalist success is measured in terms of wealth and station? Julian Hawthorne's didactic ...
... society that demands conformity? And, if fantasies or dreams are encouraged, are they solipsistic—do children grow up unaware of others' plights if they are not shown the practical or less pleasant side of life? Is it possible to tell ...
... society that made claims of equality for all while denying equality and access to education and citizenship privileges to women, children, and people of color. In “Lydia Maria Child and the Juvenile Miscellany,” Carolyn Karcher notes ...
... society and the youth representing the instinctive sympathies of the heart are vying for Child's allegiance” (p. 63). 6. In Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830–1865, Deborah De Rosa writes about domestic abolitionist ...
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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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