Reading children : literacy, property and the dilemmas of childhood in nineteenth-century America /

Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring early children's literature, pedagogical practices, property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crain, Patricia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
©2016
Colección:Material texts.
Temas:
1800-1899
Children > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Literacy > United States > History > 19th century.
Children > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Socialization > United States > History > 19th century.
Children's literature > History > 19th century.
Social values in literature.
Enfants > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Enfants > Livres et lecture > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Socialisation > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Valeurs sociales dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Children > Books and reading
Children > Social conditions
Children's literature
Literacy
Social values in literature
Socialization
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Children and books
  • Literacy, commodities, and cultural capital : the case of Goody two-shoes
  • The literary property of childhood : the case of the "babes in the wood"
  • Colonizing childhood, placing Cherokee children
  • "Selling a boy" : race, class, and the literacy economy of childhood
  • Children in the margins
  • Raising "Master James" : the medial child and phantasms of reading
  • Coda. Bedtime stories
  • Appendix. "The children in the wood".

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