Synopses & Reviews
The essays in Culturing the Child, 1690-1914: Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers provide new perspectives on early children's literature by following in the footsteps of noted children's literature historian and scholar Mitzi Myers.
About the Author
\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.
Table of Contents
Introduction / Donelle Ruwe -- The book on the bookseller's shelf and the book in the English child's hand / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- Virtue in the guise of vice : the making and unmaking of morality from fairy tale fantasy / Karen E. Rowe -- "Delightful task!" : women, children and reading in the mid-eighteenth century / Julia Briggs -- Mother of all discourses : Anna Barbauld's Lessons for children / William McCarthy -- Gender, nationalism, and science in Hannah More's pedagogical plays for children / Marjean D. Purinton -- "A conservative woman doing radical things" : Sarah Trimmer and The guardian of education / M.O. Grenby -- The making and unmaking of a children's classic : the case of Scott's Ivanhoe / Bruce Beiderwell and Anita Hemphill McCormick -- Heroism reconsidered : negotiating autonomy in St. Nicholas magazine (1873-1914) / Susan R. Gannon / Worlds of girls : educational reform and fictional form in L.T. Mead's school stories / Mavis Reimer -- Mitzi Myers : a memoir (9 October 1939 to 5 November 2001) / Patsy Myers -- The scholarly legacy of Mitzi Myers / Gillian Adams with Donelle Ruwe -- A bibliography of Mitzi Myers's scholarly works / Donelle Ruwe.