Empire's Nursery : Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century /

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How children and children's literature helped build America's empireAmerica's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children's literature, authors instilled the idea of America�...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rouleau, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Children's literature, American > History and criticism.
Internationalism in literature.
Young adult literature, American > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature.
Adolescence.
Amateur newspapers.
Amateurdom.
American Century.
American empire.
Anti-imperialism.
Cold War.
Comic books.
Comics.
Communism.
Cuba.
Cultural gifts.
Dime novels.
Dollar diplomacy.
Edward Stratemeyer.
Foreign relations.
Indians.
Internationalism.
Interventionism.
Lucy Fitch Perkins.
Mary Hazelton Wade.
Monroe Doctrine.
Philippines.
Postcolonialism.
Postmodernism.
Progressivism.
Public sphere.
Pulp fiction.
Series fiction.
Settler colonialism.
Stratemeyer Syndicate.
Superheroes.
Television.
Third Worldism.
Toy press.
U.S. in the world.
Vietnam War.
War of 1898.
Western Hemisphere.
Westerns.
World War I.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Juvenile Foreign Relations; or, Policy at the Level of Popular Fiction
  • 1. How the West Was Fun
  • 2. Serialized Imperialism
  • 3. Empire's Amateurs
  • 4. Internationalist Impulses
  • 5. Dollar Diplomacy for the Price of a Few Nickels
  • 6. Comic Book Cold War
  • Epilogue: The Empire Writes Back
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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