Enterprising Youth

Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature
Herausgeber: Elbert, Monika

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Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9780415876674
• ISBN-10: 0415876672
• Artikelnr.: 27985488

Autorenporträt

Monika Elbert

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
List of Figures
Introduction
Monika Elbert
1. Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls
"A Just, A Useful Part": Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria
Sedgwick's Contributions to The Juvenile Miscellany and The Youth's
Companion
Lorinda B. Cohoon
Charitable (Mis)givings and the Aesthetics of Poverty in Louisa May
Alcott's Christmas Stories
Monika Elbert
"Hints Dropped Here and There": Constructing Exclusion in St. Nicholas,
Volume I
Melissa Fowler and Janet Gray
"One extra little girl": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans
Roxanne Harde
2. Politicizing Children: "Normalization" and the Place of the Marginalized
Child
"A is an Abolitionist": The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of
Literacy
Martha Sledge
Overcoming Racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in
Antebellum America
Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling
"I am your slave for love": Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher
Stowe's Fiction for Children
Lesley Ginsberg
Shut-ins, Shut-outs, and Spofford's Other Children: The Hester Stanley
Stories
Rita Bode
3. Sentimental and Realistic Constructs of Childhood
Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century
America
Shawn Thomson
"the cleverest children's book written here": Elizabeth Stoddard's Lolly
Dinks's Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions
Maria Holmgren Troy
A Sentimental Childhood: The Unlikely Memoirs of Realist-Era Writers
Melanie Dawson
The Cultural Work of Kate Douglas Wiggin: Cultivating the Child's Garden
Anne Lundin
4. Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Child's Mind
"Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop": Invention and Technology in
Books for Children, 1850-1990
Eric S. Hintz
Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association
J.D. Stahl
Good Masters: Child-Animal Relationships in the Writings of Mark Twain and
G. Stanley Hall
Joan Menefee
Child Consciousness in the American Novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1885), What Maisie Knew (1897), and the Birth of Child Psychology
Holly Blackford
Contributors
Bibliography
Index