Behold the child
Subtitle: American children and their books, 1621-1922
By: Gillian Avery
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780801850660
Subjects: Books and reading; Jeugdliteratuur; Kinderliteratur; Children's literature, American; History and criticism; Children; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Children of Godly ancestors; title: The eighteenth century: Dick Whittington, Goody Two-Shoes and Benjamin Franklin; title: Rational ideas; title: Doctrine and virtuous twaddle: religious education and Sunday school fiction; title: Liberty of thought; title: Homes and heroines; title: Frank and manly: ideals of boyhood.