Reading children : literacy, property, and the dilemmas of childhood in nineteenth-century America /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Material texts.
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| Summary: | "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 children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property"--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 247 pages ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812247961 0812247965 9780812223538 0812223535 |