Dependent states : the child's part in nineteenth-century American culture
Karen Sánchez-Eppler (Author)
"Dependent States examines the ties between children's literacy training and the growing cultural prestige of the novel; the way children functioned rhetorically in reform literature to enforce social norms; the way the risks of death to children shored up emotional power in the home; how Sunday schools socialized children into racial, religious, and national identities; and how class identity was produced, not only in terms of work, but also in the way children played. For Sanchez-Eppler, nineteenth-century childhoods were nothing less than vehicles for national reform. Dependent on adults for their care, children did not conform to the ideals of enfranchisement and agency that we usually associate with historical actors
Print Book, English, 2005
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226734590, 0226734595
57283650
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