Culturing the Child, 1690-1914
Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers
Co-published with: Children's Literature Association

Edited by Donelle Ruwe

List Price: $56.10 ISBN: 0-8108-5182-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5182-5 Pub Date: Mar 2005 280 pages Binding: Paper Availability: In Stock   European customers click here

SUBJECTS
Women's Studies
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REVIEWS
"Culturing the Child is both a significant book in its own right and a fitting tribute to a scholar who believed that, from its earliest days, writing for children was—and needed to be—concerned with fundamental moral questions..." —vol. 48, no. 3 (2006), VICTORIAN STUDIES

DESCRIPTION
Utilizing new historicist, feminist, and cultural studies critiques, these essays by leading scholars provide new perspectives on early children's literary texts. The essays are divided into four parts:

· Part 1 critiques the rise of children's literature throughout the eighteenth-century

· Part 2 focuses on the rise of the female educator and the "rational dames"

· Part 3 contains three essays on the politics of pedagogy and the child

· Part 4 is a detailed examination of the work of children's literature scholar Mitzi Myers (1939-2001)

Scholars of children's literature, literary history, and gender studies will find this volume very illuminating.

List of Contributors
Gillian Adams, Bruce Beiderwell, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Julia Briggs, Susan R. Gannon, M. O. Grenby, William McCarthy, Anita Hemphill McCormick, Marjean D. Purinton, Mavis Reimer, and Karen E. Rowe

ABOUT THE EDITOR
Donelle Ruwe is an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Arizona University and is on the Governing Board of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association. She publishes on British children's literature and women writers.

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