Reading Children : : Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America / / Patricia Crain.
What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children&...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 35 color, 45 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Children and Books
- Chapter 1. Literacy, Commodities, and Cultural Capital: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes
- Chapter 2. The Literary Property of Childhood: The Case of the ''Babes in the Wood''
- Chapter 3. Colonizing Childhood, Placing Cherokee Children
- Chapter 4. ''Selling a Boy'': Race, Class, and the Literacy Economy of Childhood
- Chapter 5. Children in the Margins
- Chapter 6. Raising ''Master James'': The Medial Child and Phantasms of Reading
- Coda. Bedtime Stories
- Appendix. ''The Children in the Wood''
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments