Author: Monika Elbert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135898537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book 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.
The Leprechaun Who Lost His Rainbow
Author: Sean Callahan
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807592897
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
It's raining, and Colleen is sad. How can her grandfather play his bagpipes in the St. Patrick's Day parade? His music is so beautiful it makes people laugh and cry at once. Suddenly, a leprechaun appears before her. He says he can make the sun come out by creating a rainbow – but to build its colors, Colleen must give up the thing she holds most dear. A note at the end explains the science of rainbows and the Roy G. Biv naming tradition.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807592897
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
It's raining, and Colleen is sad. How can her grandfather play his bagpipes in the St. Patrick's Day parade? His music is so beautiful it makes people laugh and cry at once. Suddenly, a leprechaun appears before her. He says he can make the sun come out by creating a rainbow – but to build its colors, Colleen must give up the thing she holds most dear. A note at the end explains the science of rainbows and the Roy G. Biv naming tradition.
Rainbow Stories
Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417703272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with "skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls" who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417703272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with "skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls" who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters.
Enterprising Youth
Author: Monika Elbert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135898537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book 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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135898537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book 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.
THE BOY TRAVELLERS AUSTRALASIA
Author: THOMAS W. KNOX
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
List of Books for Boys and Girls, 1900
Author: Public Library of Brookline
Publisher:
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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American Leaves
Author: Samuel Osgood
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Startling Exploits of Dr. J.B. Quiès
Author: Paul Célières
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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An American Family in Germany
Author: John Ross Browne
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Category : Algeria
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Algeria
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Social Life of the Chinese
Author: Justus Doolittle
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The Boy Travellers in Central Europe
Author: Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher:
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description