Imaginary citizens : child readers and the limits of American independence, 1640-1868 / Courtney Weikle-Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weikle-Mills, Courtney.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Books and reading--United States--History.

Children.

Children's literature, American--History and criticism.

Children's literature, American.

Citizenship--United States--History.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Courtney Weikle-Mills discusses such characters as Goody Two-Shoes, Ichabod Crane, and Tom Sawyer in terms of how they reflect these conflicting ideals.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: From Subjects to Citizens: The Politics of Childhood and Children�s Literature""; ""1 Youth as a Time of Choice: Children�s Reading in Colonial New England""; ""2 Affectionate Citizenship: Educating Child Readers for a New Nation""; ""3 Child Readers of the Novel: The Problem of Childish Citizenship""; ""4 Reading for Social Profit: Economic Citizenship as Children�s Citizenship""; ""5 Natural Citizenship: Children, Slaves, and the Book of Nature""

""CONCLUSION: The Legacy of the Fourteenth Amendment: Limited Thinking on Children�s Citizenship""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4214-0807-4

OCLC:

821216783