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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Sánchez-Eppler |
ISBN: | 0226734595 9780226734590 |
OCLC Number: | 57283650 |
Description: | xxviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Childhood fictions : imagining literacy and literature -- The child and the making of home : questions of love, power, and the market -- The death of a child and the replication of an image -- Rearing a nation : childhood and the construction of social identity. |
Responsibility: | by Karen Sánchez-Eppler. |
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Abstract:
Yet through meticulously researched examples, Sanchez-Eppler reveals that children participated in the making of social meaning. Her focus on childhood as a dependent state thus offers a rewarding corrective to our notions of autonomous individualism and a new perspective on American culture itself.
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"Dependent States is an engaging work. Sanchez-Eppler offers a careful and detailed analysis of how childhood was articulated in the nineteenth-century United States and how that articulation was central to the constitution of American culture. This is a remarkable and elegantly written book on a timely and important topic." - Priscilla Wald, Duke University" Read more...
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