Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, ten essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
is Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.is F. Williams Summers Professor, Library and Information Studies, and Professor, American Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee. He has received numerous awards and fellowships.
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