１９世紀アメリカ児童文学における社会的価値と文化変容 Enterprising Youth : Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature

著者名：Elbert, Monika (EDT)

Routledge（2008/06/09発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780415876674
• eISBN：9781135898533

Description

"Recommended" by Choice

Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as representatives of a new order, or as receptacles of the transmitted values of their parents. The question, then, is whether the business of telling children's stories becomes an adult enterprise of conservative indoctrination, or whether children are enterprising enough to read what many of the contributors to this volume see as the subversive potential of these texts. This collection of literary and historical criticism of nineteenth-century American children’s literature draws upon recent assessments of canon formations, gender studies, and cultural studies to show how concepts of public/private, male/female, and domestic/foreign are collapsed to reveal a picture of American childhood and life that is expansive and constrictive at the same time.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls; Chapter 1 A Just, A Useful Part : Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Contributions to The Juvenile Miscellany and The Youth's Companion, Lorinda B. Cohoon; Chapter 2 Charitable (Mis)givings and the Aesthetics of Poverty in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Stories, Monika Elbert; Chapter 3 Hints Dropped Here and There: Constructing Exclusion in St. Nicholas, Volume I, Janet Gray, Melissa Fowler; Chapter 4 One extra little girl: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans, Roxanne Harde; Part 2 Politicizing Children: Normalization and the Place of the Marginalized Child; Chapter 5 A is an Abolitionist: The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy, Martha L. Sledge; Chapter 6 Overcoming Racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in Antebellum America, Jeannette Barnes, Lessels Eric Sterling; Chapter 7 I am your slave for love: Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction for Children, Lesley Ginsberg; Chapter 8 Shut-ins, Shut-outs, and Spofford's Other Children: The Hester Stanley Stories, Rita Bode; Part 3 Sentimental and Realistic Constructs of Childhood; Chapter 9 Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America, Shawn Thomson; Chapter 10 The cleverest children's book written here: Elizabeth Stoddard's Lolly Dinks's Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions, Maria Holmgren Troy; Chapter 11 A Sentimental Childhood: The Unlikely Memoirs of Realist-Era Writers, Melanie Dawson; Chapter 12 The Cultural Work of Kate Douglas Wiggin: Cultivating the Child's Garden, Anne Lundin; Part Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Child's Mind; Chapter 13 Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop: Invention and Technology in Books for Children, 1850-1900, Eric S. Hintz; Chapter 14 Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association, J.D. Stahl; Chapter 15 Good Masters: Child–Animal Relationships in the Writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall, Joan Menefee; Chapter 16 Child Consciousness in the American Novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie Knew (1897), and the Birth of Child Psychology, Holly Blackford;