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Author:

Sánchez-Eppler, Karen.

Title:

Dependent states : the child's part in nineteenth-century American culture / by Karen Sánchez-Eppler.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xxviii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children--United States--History--19th century.
Children--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Socialization--United States--History--19th century.
Children--History--United States--History--19th century.
Children's literature, American--History and criticism.
United States--Social conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index.

Contents:

Childhood fictions : imagining literacy and literature -- The writing of childhood -- The child and the making of home : questions of love, power, and the market -- Temperance in the bed of a child -- The death of a child and the replication of an image -- Rearing a nation : childhood and the construction of social identity -- Playing at class -- Raising empires like children.

ISBN:

0226734595 (alk. paper)
9780226734590

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57283650

LCCN:

2004027423

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)