Enterprising youth : social values and acculturation in nineteenth-century American children's literature /
Elbert, Monika M.(Monika Maria),1956-
New York ; London : Routledge,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
A just, a useful part : Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's contributions to The juvenile miscellany and The youth's companion / Lorinda B. Cohoon -- Charitable (mis)givings and the aesthetics of poverty in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas stories / Monika Elbert -- Hints dropped here and there : constructing exclusion in St. Nicholas, volume I / Janet Gray and Melissa Fowler -- One extra little girl : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans / Roxanne Harde -- A is an abolitionist : The anti-slavery alphabet and the politics of literacy / Martha L. Sledge -- Overcoming racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in antebellum America / Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling -- I am your slave for love : race, sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction for children / Lesley Ginsberg -- Shut-ins, shut-outs, and Spofford's other children : the Hester Stanley stories / Rita Bode -- Robinson Crusoe and the shaping of masculinity in nineteenth-century America / Shawn Thomson -- The cleverest children's book written here : Elizabeth Stoddard's Lolly Dinks's doings and the subversion of social conventions / Maria Holmgren Troy -- A sentimental childhood : the unlikely memoirs of realist-era writers / Melanie Dawson -- The cultural work of Kate Douglas Wiggin : cultivating the child's garden / Anne Lundin -- Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop : invention and technology in books for children, 1850-1990 / Eric S. Hintz -- Natural history for children and the Agassiz Association / J.D. Stahl -- Good masters : child-animal relationships in the writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall / Joan Menefee -- Child consciousness in the American novel : adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie knew (1897), and the birth of child psychology / Holly Blackford.
Children's literature, American
Children
Social values in literature.
Children
Socialization