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Reading Children Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: Reading Children
Author: Patricia Crain

Auteur: Patricia Crain

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Patricia Crain

Engels
Hardcover
9780812247961
13 juni 2016
280 pagina's

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Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring early children's literature, pedagogical practices, property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.

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's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.
The nursery and schoolroom version of the social contract, Crain argues, underwrote children's entry not only into reading and writing but also into a world of commodity and property relations. Increasingly positioned as an indispensable form of cultural capital by the end of the eighteenth century, literacy became both the means and the symbol of children's newly recognized self-possession and autonomy. At the same time, as children's legal and economic status was changing, "childhood" emerged as an object of nostalgia for adults. Literature for children enacted the terms of children's self-possession, often with explicit references to property, contracts, or inheritances, and yet also framed adult longing for an imagined past called "childhood."
Dozens of colorful illustrations chart the ways in which early literature for children was transformed into spectacle through new image technologies and a burgeoning marketplace that capitalized on nostalgic fantasies of childhood conflated with bowdlerized fantasies of history. Reading Children offers new terms for thinking about the imbricated and mutually constitutive histories of literacy, property, and childhood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that ground current anxieties and long-held beliefs about childhood and reading.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 juni 2016
Aantal pagina's: 280
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Hoofdauteur: Patricia Crain
Hoofduitgeverij: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 178 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 254 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 178 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 254 mm
Verpakking lengte: 254 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 880 g

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Categorieën: Gezin & Relaties

Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Literatuurwetenschap

1800 tot 1900

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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