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List of Figures | |
Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls | p. 1 |
"A Just, A Useful Part": Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Contributions to The Juvenile Miscellany and The Youth's Companion | p. 3 |
Charitable (Mis)givings and the Aesthetics of Poverty in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Stories | p. 19 |
"Hints Dropped Here and There": Constructing Exclusion in St. Nicholas, Volume I | p. 39 |
"One extra little girl": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans | p. 55 |
Politicizing Children: "Normalization" and the Place of the Marginalized Child | p. 67 |
"A is an Abolitionist": The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy | p. 69 |
Overcoming Racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and in Antebellum America | p. 83 |
"I am your slave for love": Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction for Children | p. 97 |
Shut-ins, Shut-outs, and Spofford's Other Children: The Hester Stanley Stories | p. 115 |
Sentimental and Realistic Constructs of Childhood | p. 131 |
Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America | p. 133 |
"The cleverest children's book written here": Elizabeth Stoddard's Lolly Dinks's Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions | p. 149 |
A Sentimental Childhood: The Unlikely Memoirs of Realist-Era Writers | p. 165 |
The Cultural Work of Kate Douglas Wiggin: Cultivating the Child's Garden | p. 179 |
Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Child's Mind | p. 195 |
"Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop": Invention and Technology in Books for Children, 1850-1900 | p. 197 |
Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association | p. 213 |
Good Masters: Child-Animal Relationships in the Writings of Mark Twain and G. Stanley Hall | p. 227 |
Child Consciousness in the American Novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie Knew (1897), and the Birth of Child Psychology | p. 245 |
Contributors | p. 259 |
Bibliography | p. 263 |
Index | p. 279 |
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