Series Editor’s Foreword
List of Figures
Introduction
Monika Elbert
1. Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls
"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
Charitable (Mis)givings and the Aesthetics of Poverty in Louisa May Alcott’s Christmas Stories
Monika Elbert
"Hints Dropped Here and There": Constructing Exclusion in St. Nicholas, Volume I
Melissa Fowler and Janet Gray
"One extra little girl": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Orphans
Roxanne Harde
2. Politicizing Children: "Normalization" and the Place of the Marginalized Child
"A is an Abolitionist": The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy
Martha Sledge
Overcoming Racism in Jacob Abbott’s Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in Antebellum America
Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling
"I am your slave for love": Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Fiction for Children
Lesley Ginsberg
Shut-ins, Shut-outs, and Spofford’s Other Children: The Hester Stanley Stories
Rita Bode
3. Sentimental and Realistic Constructs of Childhood
Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America
Shawn Thomson
"the cleverest children’s book written here": Elizabeth Stoddard’s Lolly Dinks’s Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions
Maria Holmgren Troy
A Sentimental Childhood: The Unlikely Memoirs of Realist-Era Writers
Melanie Dawson
The Cultural Work of Kate Douglas Wiggin: Cultivating the Child’s Garden
Anne Lundin
4. Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Child’s Mind
"Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop": Invention and Technology in Books for Children, 1850-1990
Eric S. Hintz
Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association
J.D. Stahl
Good Masters: Child-Animal Relationships in the Writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall
Joan Menefee
Child Consciousness in the American Novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie Knew (1897), and the Birth of Child Psychology
Holly Blackford
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Montclair State Univesity, USA
"...the essays are well-researched and well-written...the volume includes 18 black-and-white period illustrations and a thorough bibliography." -- E.R. Baer, Choice"Readers will learn more about old favorites such as Stowe, Alcott, and Twain, discover new areas for research, and develop new perspectives on nineteenth-century American children's literature…this is an important contribution to American children's literature scholarship, one that should be in every university library. The authors and the editor are to be commended for their work; I look forward to seeing how their scholarship shapes and inspires additional research on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century American children's literature." --Anne K. Phillips, Children’s Literature
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