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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462236703321

Autore

Weikle-Mills Courtney

Titolo

Imaginary citizens [[electronic resource] ] : child readers and the limits of American independence, 1640-1868 / / Courtney Weikle-Mills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-4214-0807-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9282

Soggetti

Children - Books and reading - United States - History

Children's literature, American - History and criticism

Citizenship - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: From Subjects to Citizens: The Politics of Childhood and Children�s Literature""; ""1 Youth as a Time of Choice: Children�s Reading in Colonial New England""; ""2 Affectionate Citizenship: Educating Child Readers for a New Nation""; ""3 Child Readers of the Novel: The Problem of Childish Citizenship""; ""4 Reading for Social Profit: Economic Citizenship as Children�s Citizenship""; ""5 Natural Citizenship: Children, Slaves, and the Book of Nature""

""CONCLUSION: The Legacy of the Fourteenth Amendment: Limited Thinking on Children�s Citizenship""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""