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Defining Print Culture for Youth The Cultural Work of Children's Literature
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Book Code: GM2177
ISBN: 0-313-32177-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32177-1
232 pages, figures, photos
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Publication: 5/30/2003
List Price: $52.00 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 X 9
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Description: Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the reader. Moreover, the authors join a cultural debate over the nature of childhood in specific historical periods. About the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
A joint project of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Center is an interdisciplinary organization devoted to scholarship in American print culture from 1875 to the present.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, by Anne Lundin
  • Chapter 1: Reading and Re-reading: The Scrapbooks of Girls Growing into Women, 1900-1930
  • Chapter 2: Communism for Kids: Race and Gender in Communist Children's Books in the United States
  • Chapter 3: Publishing Pride: The Jim Crow Series of Harlow Publishing Company
  • Chapter 4: The Power of Black and White: African Americans in Late Nineteenth-Century Children's Periodicals
  • Chapter 5: Harold O. Rugg and the Definition of Democracy
  • Chapter 6: Being Poor Doesn't Count: Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in American Girls' School Series, 1900-1920
  • Chapter 7: Turning Child Readers into Consumers: Children's Magazine and Advertising, 1900-1920
  • Chapter 8: Learning to be a Woman: Lessons from Girl Scouting and Home Economics, 1920-1970
  • Chapter 9: Kate Chopin and the Birth of Young Adult Fiction
  • Chapter 10: Nancy Drew in Urban India: Reading as a Postcolonial Legacy
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