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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Main Author: Crain, Patricia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Material texts.
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