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04040aam a2200433 i 4500 001 56737F96DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 200928s2021 gaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020043898 020 $a 0820358592 020 $a 9780820358598 020 $a 0820358614 020 $a 9780820358611 035 $a (OCoLC)1200037760 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OBE $d IL4J6 $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.C454 $b K55 2021 082 00 $a 810.9/928209034 $2 23 100 1 $a Kilcup, Karen L., $e author. 245 10 $a Stronger, truer, bolder : $b American children's writing, nature, and the environment / $c Karen L. Kilcup. 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xv, 428 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)-and many not-so-famous-wrote literature for children; many contributed regularly to these periodicals, and many entered the field of nature writing, responding to and forwarding the century's huge social and cultural changes. Appreciating America's unique natural wonders dovetailed with children's growth as citizens, but children's journals often exceeded a pedagogical intent, intending also to entertain and delight. Though these volumes aimed at a relatively conservative middle-class and affluent audience, some selections allowed both children and their parents room for imaginative escape from restrictive social norms. Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as laboring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included America's nineteenth-century emergence as an industrial power. Karen Kilcup shows how children's literature mirrored those changes in various ways. In its earliest incarnations, it taught children (and their parents) facts about the natural world and about proper behavior vis-aÌ-vis both human and non-human others. More significantly, as periodical writing for children advanced, this literature increasingly promoted children's environmental agency and envisioned their potential influence on concerns ranging from animal rights and interspecies equity to conservation and environmental justice. Such understanding of and engagement with nature not only propelled children toward ethical adulthood, it also formed a foundation of responsible American citizenship"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Playing in the dirt : nineteenth-century children and their environmental literature -- Children's environmental literature in the nineteenth-century United States and beyond -- "Frightful stories" : savage nature, civilized culture in the juvenile miscellany -- "What do we mean by nature?" : animals, Americans, and agency -- "Such great results" : engendering environmental agency, 1854-1875 -- "Love in a Noah's Ark" : animals, children, and America -- From Little machinery to the technology of war : children's environmental literature after 1900. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a Children's literature, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 650 0 $a Human ecology in literature. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Children's literature, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00855882 650 7 $a Human ecology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962998 650 7 $a Nature in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034680 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025347.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56737F96DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search