Enterprising Youth Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature

Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls

1. "A Just, A Useful Part": Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s

Contributions to The Juvenile Miscellany and The Youth’s Companion

Lorinda B. Cohoon, University of Memphis

2. Slumbering Charity and The Plight of the Poor in Louisa May Alcott’s Fiction for

Children

Monika Elbert, Montclair State University

3. Hints Dropped Here and There: Constructing Exclusion in St. Nicholas (vol. 1)

Melissa Fowler and Janet Gray, College of New Jersey

4. "One extry little girl": The Nineteenth-Century Orphan in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s

Writing for Children

Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta

5. Political Crossroads: Images of Citizenship for Children during the Political

Reconstruction of the LDS Church

Shauna Bigham,

Politicizing Children: The Civil War and its Aftermath

1. "A is an Abolitionist": The Anti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy

Martha Sledge, Marymount Manhattan College

2. "Overcoming Racism: Rainbow's Dignity and Poise in Jacob Abbott's Stories of

Rainbow and Lucky"

Eric Sterling, Auburn University

3. "I am your slave for love": Race, Sentimental Culture, and Stowe’s Fiction for Children

Lesley Ginsberg, University of Colorado

4. To Heal and Preserve: Southern Perceptions of the Civil War and Reconstruction in

Burke’s Weekly for Boys and Girls

J.E. Myers and J.L. Gmuca

Sentimentalism vs. Realism: "Normalization" and The Place of the Othered Child

1. Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Hester Stanley Stories: Xenophobia in Children’s

Literature

Rita Bode, Trent University

2. Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America

Shawn Thomson, University of Kansas

3. " The cleverest children’s book written here": Elizabeth Stoddard’s Lolly Dinks’s Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions

Maria Holmgren Troy, Karlstad University

4. A Sentimental Childhood: Memoirs by White and by Native American Authors

Melanie Dawson, College of William and Mary

Education and Shifting Paradigms of the Child’s Mind

1. "Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop": Invention and Technology in Books for Children, 1850-1900

Eric S. Hintz, University of Pennsylvania

2. Natural History for Children and the Agassiz Association

J.D. Stahl, Virginia Tech

3. Good Masters: Child-Animal Relationships in 19^th-Century Children’s Fiction and

Educational Psychology

Joan Menefee, University of Wisconsin (Stout)

4. The Cultural Work of Kate Douglas Wiggin: Cultivating the Child’s Garden

Anne Lundin, University of Wisconsin

5. Child Consciousness in the American Novel: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and What Maisie Knew

Holly Blackford, Rutgers University

Biography

Monika Elbert

"...the essays are well-researched and well-written...the volume includes 18 black-and-white period illustrations and a thorough bibliography." -- E.R. Baer, Choice

"Readers will learn more about old favorites such as Stowe, Alcott, and Twain, discover new areas for research, and develop new perspectives on nineteenth-century American children's literature…this is an important contribution to American children's literature scholarship, one that should be in every university library. The authors and the editor are to be commended for their work; I look forward to seeing how their scholarship shapes and inspires additional research on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century American children's literature." --Anne K. Phillips, Children’s Literature