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American Childhood: Essays on Children's Literature of the Nineteenth and Twent
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780820318035
- EAN
- 9780820318035
- Book Title
- American Childhood : Essays on Children's of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Original Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Children's & Young Adult Literature, American / General
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820318035
ISBN-13
9780820318035
eBay Product ID (ePID)
783845
Product Key Features
Original Language
English
Book Title
American Childhood : Essays on Children's of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Children's & Young Adult Literature, American / General
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
92-038269
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
MacLeod has written some of the most intelligent criticism of children's literature in the last two decades-including the fourteen graceful essays collected here., "MacLeod has written some of the most intelligent criticism of children's literature in the last two decades-including the fourteen graceful essays collected here."-- American Literature, "MacLeod has written some of the most intelligent criticism of children's literature in the last two decades-including the fourteen graceful essays collected here."--American Literature, MacLeod is an informed and empathetic historian and cultural critic. . . . Underlying the keenly analytic essays is MacLeod's own implicit morality-her pervasive tone of kindliness, of responsibility, of concern for the children. While not overtly polemical, MacLeod's essays are instructive to the adult reader as lessons in perception and in imaginative empathy., "MacLeod is an informed and empathetic historian and cultural critic. . . . Underlying the keenly analytic essays is MacLeod's own implicit morality-her pervasive tone of kindliness, of responsibility, of concern for the children. While not overtly polemical, MacLeod's essays are instructive to the adult reader as lessons in perception and in imaginative empathy."--Horn Book Magazine, "MacLeod is an informed and empathetic historian and cultural critic. . . . Underlying the keenly analytic essays is MacLeod's own implicit morality-her pervasive tone of kindliness, of responsibility, of concern for the children. While not overtly polemical, MacLeod's essays are instructive to the adult reader as lessons in perception and in imaginative empathy."-- Horn Book Magazine
Dewey Decimal
810.99282
Synopsis
In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of children's stories. Most of the essays concern domestic novels for children or adolescents--stories set more or less in the time of their publication. Some essays also draw creatively on childhood memoirs, travel writings that contain foreigners' observations of American children, and other studies of children's literature. The topics on which MacLeod writes range from the current politicized marketplace for children's books, to the reestablishment (and reconfiguration) of the family in recent children's fiction, to the ways that literature challenges or enforces the idealization of children. MacLeod sometimes considers a single author's canon, as when she discusses the feminism of the Nancy Drew mystery series or the Orwellian vision of Robert Cormier. At other times, she looks at a variety of works within a particular period, for example, Jacksonian America, the post-World War II decade, or the 1970s. MacLeod also examines books that were once immensely popular but currently have no appreciable readership--the Horatio Alger stories, for example--and finds fresh, intriguing ways to view the work of such well-known writers as Louisa May Alcott, Beverly Cleary, and Paul Zindel., In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of children's stories. Most of the essays concern domestic novels for children or adolescents-stories set more or less in the time of their publication.
LC Classification Number
PS490.M29 1996
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