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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| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.