Vicious infants : dangerous childhoods in antebellum U.S. literature /

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"Childhood as scholars often recognize it-innocent, vulnerable, and above all, precious-is anchored in the cultural imagination of the early nineteenth-century United States, when an attitude of child worship drove sentimental politics and literature. But, not all childhoods were defined by lov...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Soderberg, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.
Series:Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Children in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Child labor in literature.
Juvenile delinquency in literature.
African American children in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
Enfants noirs américains dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
African American children in literature
American literature
Child labor in literature
Children in literature
Juvenile delinquency in literature
Social problems in literature
børne- og ungdomslitteratur.
bsup.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bound Children: Sidestepping the Social Contract in Apprenticeship Literature
  • The Incorrigible Child: Juvenile Delinquency and the Fearful Rise of the Child Self
  • Prodigious Births: Black Infancy, Antebellum Medicine, and the Racialization of Heredity
  • Too Many Children: U.S. Malthusianism, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Novel-Ending Births
  • Conclusion.

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