Culturing the Child, 1690-1914 Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers

by Ruwe, Donelle; Adams, Gillian; Beiderwell, Bruce; Bottigheimer, Ruth B.; Briggs, Julia; Gannon, Susan R.; Grenby, M O.; McCormick, Anita Hemphill; Purinton, Marjean D.; Reimer, Mavis; Rowe, Karen E.

• ISBN13: 9780810851825
• ISBN10: 0810851822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-03
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Utilizing new historicist, feminist, and cultural studies critiques, this collection of essays provides new perspectives on early children's literary texts and the work of children's literature scholar Mitzi Myers (19392001).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Creating the contexts of children's literature
The book on the bookseller's shelf and the book in the English child's hand	p. 3
Virtue in the guise of vice : the making and unmaking of morality from fairy tale fantasy	p. 29
"Delightful task!" : women, children, and reading in the mid-eighteenth century	p. 67
Reading the rational dames
Mother of all discourses : Anna Barbauld's Lessons for children	p. 85
Gender, nationalism, and science in Hannah More's pedagogical plays for children	p. 113
"A conservative woman doing radical things" : Sarah Trimmer and The guardian of education	p. 137
The politics of pedagogy and the child
The making and unmaking of a children's classic : the case of Scott's Ivanhoe	p. 165
Heroism reconsidered : negotiating autonomy in St. Nicholas Magazine (1873-1914)	p. 179
Worlds of girls : educational reform and fictional form in L. T. Meade's school stories	p. 199
Remembering Mitzi Myers
Mitzi Myers : a memoir (9 October 1939 to 5 November 2001)	p. 221
The scholarly legacy of Mitzi Myers	p. 227
A bibliography of Mitzi Myers's scholarly works	p. 241
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