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Reading children : literacy, property, and the dilemmas of childhood in nineteenth-century America / Patricia Crain.
LIBRA HQ792.U6 C73 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crain, Patricia, author.
- Series:
- Material texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Children.
- Literacy--United States--History--19th century.
- Literacy.
- Children--Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.
- Children--Books and reading.
- Children's literature.
- History.
- Socialization.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Socialization--United States--History--19th century.
- Children's literature--History--19th century.
- Social values in literature.
- Children--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Literacy, Commodities, and Cultural Capital: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes 19
- Chapter 2 The Literary Property of Childhood: The Case of the "Babes in the Wood" 43
- Chapter 3 Colonizing Childhood, Placing Cherokee Children 62
- Chapter 4 "Selling a Boy": Race, Class, and the Literacy Economy of Childhood 89
- Chapter 5 Children in the Margins 109
- Chapter 6 Raising "Master James": The Medial Child and Phantasms of Reading 144.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812247961
- 0812247965
- OCLC:
- 927401353
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