Enterprising youth : social values and acculturation in nineteenth-century American children's literature
"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."--BOOK JACKET
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780415961509, 9780415876674, 9780203928448, 0415961505, 020392844X, 0415876672
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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 / Janet Gray and Melissa Fowler
One extra little girl : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans / Roxanne Harde
A is an abolitionist : The anti-slavery alphabet and the politics of literacy / Martha L. 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
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
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