Cover Image

Reading children : literacy, property, and the dilemmas of childhood in nineteenth-century America /

Show other versions (1)

"What does it mean for a child to be a "reader," and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early ch...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crain, Patricia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
Children > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Literacy > United States > History > 19th century.
Children > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Socialization > United States > History > 19th century.
Children's literature > History > 19th century.
Social values in literature.
Children > Books and reading.
Children > Social conditions.
Children's literature.
Literacy.
Socialization.
United States.
Kind.
Sozialisation.
Lektüre.
USA.
1800-1899
History.

Evans: Library Stacks

Holdings details from Evans: Library Stacks
Call Number: HQ792.U6 C73 2016
 
Call Number Status Get It
HQ792.U6 C73 2016 Available