Enterprising youth : social values and acculturation in nineteenth-century American children's literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Series: | Children's literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.