Michelle Beissel Heath

Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children's and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of as "playful literary citizenship," or some of t

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367885076
• ISBN-10: 0367885077
• Artikelnr.: 58439961

Autorenporträt

Michelle Beissel Heath is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, USA, where she specializes in children's literature and in nineteenth-century British literature. She has published articles on children's citizenship, play, gender, and literary texts of the long nineteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Play and Literary Citizenship
1. Dual/Dueling with Literary Legacies: Battles for Cultural Respectability
and National Pride in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century U.S. and
British Play and Games
2. Croquet and the Growing Girl: Playful Citizenship in Carroll, Yonge, and
Alcott
3. Citizenship on the World's Stage: Kipling's Novels of Boyhood, the Boy
Scouts, and Upton's Golliwogg Books
4. "'Art for Art' is their motto": Aesthetic Citizenship, Children's Play,
and Class Politics in the Eyes and Hands of Burnett and Nesbit
Conclusion: It Takes a Village to Raise a Puppet: Twentieth Century
Freedom, Limit, and Deviance in the Adventure Playground Movement and in
Conceptions of Playful Child Citizenship in Enid Blyton's Famous Five and
Noddy Books