Empire's Nursery : : Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century / / Brian Rouleau.
How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empireAmerica’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the import...
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Rouleau, Brian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Empire's Nursery : Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century / Brian Rouleau. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource : 15 b/w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Juvenile Foreign Relations; or, Policy at the Level of Popular Fiction -- 1 How the West Was Fun -- 2 Serialized Imperialism -- 3 Empire’s Amateurs -- 4 Internationalist Impulses -- 5 Dollar Diplomacy for the Price of a Few Nickels -- 6 Comic Book Cold War -- Epilogue: The Empire Writes Back -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empireAmerica’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America’s indispensability to the international order.Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children’s literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country’s command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children’s literature thereby helped to disguise dominion’s unsavory nature.The modern era has been called both the “American Century” and the “Century of the Child.” Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024) Children's literature, American-History and criticism. Internationalism in literature. Young adult literature, American-History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature. bisacsh Adolescence. Amateur newspapers. Amateurdom. American Century. American empire. Anti-imperialism. Cold War. Comic books. Comics. Communism. Cuba. Cultural gifts. Dime novels. Dollar diplomacy. Edward Stratemeyer. Foreign relations. Indians. Internationalism. Interventionism. Lucy Fitch Perkins. Mary Hazelton Wade. Monroe Doctrine. Philippines. Postcolonialism. Postmodernism. Progressivism. Public sphere. Pulp fiction. Series fiction. Settler colonialism. Stratemeyer Syndicate. Superheroes. Television. Third Worldism. Toy press. U.S. in the world. Vietnam War. War of 1898. Western Hemisphere. Westerns. World War I. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479804504.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479804504 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479804504/original |
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