Patricia Crain

Reading Children

Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

Patricia Crain is Professor of English at New York University and author of The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 180mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780812223538
• ISBN-10: 0812223535
• Artikelnr.: 49662803

Autorenporträt

Patricia Crain is Professor of English at New York University and author of The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Children and Books
Chapter 1. Literacy, Commodities, and Cultural Capital: The Case of Goody
Two-Shoes
Chapter 2. The Literary Property of Childhood: The Case of the "Babes in
the Wood"
Chapter 3. Colonizing Childhood, Placing Cherokee Children
Chapter 4. "Selling a Boy": Race, Class, and the Literacy Economy of
Childhood
Chapter 5. Children in the Margins
Chapter 6. Raising "Master James": The Medial Child and Phantasms of
Reading
Coda. Bedtime Stories
Appendix. "The Children in the Wood"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments