Dependent States The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Name: Dependent States The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
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ISBN: 9780226734590

ISBN-10: 0226734595

ISBN-13: 9780226734590

Edition: 2005

Authors: Karen Sanchez-Eppler

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It is all too easy to dismiss children as historical actors; however, 'Dependent States' offers a new perspective on 19th century US history, with an analysis of the role of the child as the focus of social reform and acknowledges the part they played in the development of national culture.

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.22" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Child's Part in the Making of American Culture



Childhood Fictions: Imagining Literacy and Literature



The Writing of Childhood


Childhood Reading from Primers to Novels


The Lessons of Children's Diaries


Childhood and Authority in Our Nig


Hawthorne and the Mind of a Child



The Child and the Making of Home: Questions of Love, Power, and the Market



Temperance in the Bed of a Child


Love and the Law


Readers and Drinkers


Restraint and Indulgence


Submissive Daughters, Absent Women, and Effeminate Men



The Death of a Child and the Replication of an Image


Keeping Loss in Drawers Full of Graves


Emerson's Vain Clutching


The Sentimental Surplus of Smitten Households



Rearing a Nation: Childhood and the Construction of Social Identity



Playing at Class


Newsboy Narratives


"We Must Have a Little Fun"



Raising Empires Like Children


Domestic Empires: Questioning the Boundaries of the Home


Domestic Empires: Questioning the Boundaries of the Nation


Coloring American Faith


Little Angels and Little Heathens


Domestic Savagery


The Missionary at Home


Coda: Of Children and Flags


Bibliography


Index