Enterprising Youth
Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature
Series: Children's Literature and Culture; 10;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 15 April 2008
- ISBN 9780415961509
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 566 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 Halftones, black & white 0
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Short description:
"Recommended" by Choice
This collection of literary and historical criticism draws on recent scholarship on canon formation, gender studies, and cultural studies both to show how concepts of public/private, male/female, and national/foreign operated in nineteenth-century children's literature and to explore how this literature transmitted hegemonic notions of American citizenship and cultural values.
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Long description:
"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.
"...the essays are well-researched and well-written...the volume includes 18 black-and-white period illustrations and a thorough bibliography." -- E.R. Baer, Choice
"Readers will learn more about old favorites such as Stowe, Alcott, and Twain, discover new areas for research, and develop new perspectives on nineteenth-century American children's literature…this is an important contribution to American children's literature scholarship, one that should be in every university library. The authors and the editor are to be commended for their work; I look forward to seeing how their scholarship shapes and inspires additional research on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century American children's literature." --Anne K. Phillips, Children’s Literature
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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
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