Enterprising youth
Subtitle: social values and acculturation in nineteenth-century American children's literature
By: edited by Monika Elbert.
Contributors: Elbert, Monika M. 1956-
Series: Children's literature and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780415961509
Subjects: Children's literature, American -- History and criticism; Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Social values in literature; Children -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Socialization -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Charitable (mis)givings and the aesthetics of poverty in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas stories / Monika Elbert; title: Hints dropped here and there : constructing exclusion in St. Nicholas, volume I / Janet Gray and Melissa Fowler; title: One extra little girl : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans / Roxanne Harde; title: A is an abolitionist : The anti-slavery alphabet and the politics of literacy / Martha L. Sledge; title: Overcoming racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in antebellum America / Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling; title: I am your slave for love : race, sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction for children / Lesley Ginsberg; title: Shut-ins, shut-outs, and Spofford's other children : the Hester Stanley stories / Rita Bode; title: Robinson Crusoe and the shaping of masculinity in nineteenth-century America / Shawn Thomson; title: The cleverest children's book written here : Elizabeth Stoddard's Lolly Dinks's doings and the subversion of social conventions / Maria Holmgren Troy; title: A sentimental childhood : the unlikely memoirs of realist-era writers / Melanie Dawson; title: The cultural work of Kate Douglas Wiggin : cultivating the child's garden / Anne Lundin; title: Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop : invention and technology in books for children, 1850-1990 / Eric S. Hintz; title: Natural history for children and the Agassiz Association / J.D. Stahl; title: Good masters : child-animal relationships in the writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall / Joan Menefee; title: Child consciousness in the American novel : adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie knew (1897), and the birth of child psychology / Holly Blackford.