Enterprising youth : social values and acculturation in nineteenth-century American children's literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2008.
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.