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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... that the imagination was the highest faculty of children (and adults). If there is a democracy of the mind and a citizenship of geniuses, as Emerson would have it when he discussed genius as not privileged but “the sound estate of every ...
... that the middle-class discourse of maternal love was skewed in its sense of charity's recipients. As the reformer Bradford Peirce announced to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1857, the purpose of saving a “fallen woman” was to make ...
... that the war had been—and should remain in memory—a white, masculinist experience in American life” (p. 91). Janet Gray, author of Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity (2004), and contributor to ...
... that The Anti-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 ...
... that the hearts of his readers should also be touched so that children would make moral decisions. Later, William Taylor Adams, writing under the pseudonym “Oliver Optic,” felt that juvenile writers had to spice up their stories to make ...
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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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