Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)

by Monika Elbert (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $174.98

  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. This book reveals the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as receptacles of the transmitted values of their parents.