Vicious infants : dangerous childhoods in antebellum U.S. literature /

"Childhood as scholars often recognize it-innocent, vulnerable, and above all, precious-is anchored in the cultural imagination of the early nineteenth-century United States, when an attitude of child worship drove sentimental politics and literature. But, not all childhoods were defined by lov...

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Main Author: Soderberg, Laura (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
Series:Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth.
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505 0 |a Bound Children: Sidestepping the Social Contract in Apprenticeship Literature -- The Incorrigible Child: Juvenile Delinquency and the Fearful Rise of the Child Self -- Prodigious Births: Black Infancy, Antebellum Medicine, and the Racialization of Heredity -- Too Many Children: U.S. Malthusianism, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Novel-Ending Births -- Conclusion. 
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