Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

by Patricia Crain

Book Overview

What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812223535
• ISBN13: 9780812223538
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.9"