Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970

by Margrit Pernau, Daniel Bruckenhaus, Stephanie Olsen, et al.

Learning How to Feel explores the ways in which children and adolescents learn not just how to express emotions that are thought to be pre-existing, but actually how to feel. The volume assumes that the embryonic ability to feel unfolds through a complex dialogue with the social and cultural environment and specifically through reading material. The fundamental formation takes place in childhood and youth. A multi-authored historical monograph, Learning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199684995
• ISBN13: 9780199684991
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"