| Author | : Leonard de Vries |
| Publisher | : New York : Abbeville Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Children |
| ISBN | : 9780896599390 |
Thirty children's books illustrate the result of the new attitude toward children
Dependent States
| Author | : Karen Sánchez-Eppler |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2005-09 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780226734590 |
Because childhood is not only culturally but also legally and biologically understood as a period of dependency, it has been easy to dismiss children as historical actors. By putting children at the center of our thinking about American history, Karen Sánchez-Eppler recognizes the important part childhood played in nineteenth-century American culture and what this involvement entailed for children themselves. 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 Sánchez-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. Yet through meticulously researched examples, Sánchez-Eppler reveals that children participated in the making of social meaning. Her focus on childhood as a dependent state thus offers a rewarding corrective to our notions of autonomous individualism and a new perspective on American culture itself.
Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
| Author | : Laurence Talairach |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2021-05-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030725278 |
Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.
Commercializing Childhood
| Author | : Paul B. Ringel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Child consumers |
| ISBN | : 9781625341907 |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Establishing Children's Magazines, 1823-1856 -- 1. Deacon Willis's Companion -- 2. Aunt Maria's Miscellany and the Limits of Gentility -- Part II. Commercializing Children's Magazines, 1857-1873 -- 3. Perry Mason and Sensational Gentility -- 4. The Youth's Companion and the Civil War -- 5. The Cultural Custodians -- 6. The Jack-in-the-Pulpit -- Part III. Sustaining Children's Magazines, 1873-1918 -- 7. Tales and the City -- 8. Children's Magazines and Modern Childhood -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction
| Author | : J. S. Bratton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2015-09-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317365623 |
Originally published in 1981. Many of the classics of children’s literature were produced in the Victorian period. But Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River were not the books offered to the majority of children of the time. When writing for children began to be taken seriously, it was not as an art, but as an instrument of moral suasion, practical instruction, Christian propaganda or social control. This book describes and evaluates this body of literature. It places the books in the economic and social contexts of their writing and publication, and considers many of the most prolific writers in detail. It deals with the stories intended to teach the newly-literate poor their social and religious lessons: sensational romances, tales of adventure and military glory, through which the boys were taught the value of self-help and inspired with the ideals of empire; and domestic novels, intended to offer girls a model for the expression of heroism and aspiration within the restricted Victorian woman’s world.
The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers
| Author | : Andrew King |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 131704231X |
The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies. The impact of digital media and archives on the field informs all discussions of the print archive. Contributors illustrate their arguments with examples and contextualize their topics within broader areas of study, while also reflecting on how the study of periodicals may evolve in the future. The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century culture who are interested in issues of cultural formation, transformation, and transmission in a developing industrial and globalizing age, as well as those whose research focuses on the bibliographical and the micro case study. In addition to rendering a comprehensive review and critique of current research on nineteenth-century British periodicals, the Handbook suggests new avenues for research in the twenty-first century. "This volume's 30 chapters deal with practically every aspect of periodical research and with the specific topics and audiences the 19th-century periodical press addressed. It also covers matters such as digitization that did not exist or were in early development a generation ago. In addition to the essays, readers will find 50 illustrations, 54 pages of bibliography, and a chronology of the periodical press. This book gives seemingly endless insights into the ways periodicals and newspapers influenced and reflected 19th-century culture. It not only makes readers aware of problems involved in interpreting the history of the press but also offers suggestions for ways of untangling them and points the direction for future research. It will be a valuable resource for readers with interests in almost any aspect of 19th-century Britain. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - J. D. Vann, University of North Texas in CHOICE
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
| Author | : Gowan Dawson |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2020-03-02 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 022667651X |
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.
Children of the Western Plains
| Author | : Marilyn Irvin Holt |
| Publisher | : American Childhoods Series |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Holt's book is the first in a new series that will emphasize the experience of children during different times and at different locales in the American past. In this book, Holt explores what life was like for youngsters who lived on the Great Plains in nineteenth-century frontier life.
Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland
| Author | : Laurel Brake |
| Publisher | : Academia Press |
| Total Pages | : 1059 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9038213409 |
A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.
