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Title Culturing the child, 1690-1914 : essays in memory of Mitzi Myers / edited by Donelle Ruwe
Published Lanham, Md. : Children's Literature Association and Scarecrow Press, 2005

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Description xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements Introduction -- Donelle Ruwe -- Part 1: Creating the Contexts of Children's Literature -- 1 The Book on the Bookseller's Shelf and The Book in the English Child's Hand -- Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- 2 Virtue in the Guise of Vice: The Making and Unmaking of Morality from Fairy Tale Fantasy -- Karen E. Rowe -- 3 "Delightful Task!": Women, Children and Reading in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Julia Briggs -- Part 2: Reading the Rational Dames -- 4 Mother of All Discourses: Anna Barbauld's Lessons for Children -- William McCarthy -- 5 Gender, Nationalism, and Science in Hannah More's Pedagogical Plays for Children -- Marjean D. Purinton -- 6 "A Conservative Woman Doing Radical Things": Sarah Trimmer and The Guardian of Education -- M. O. Grenby -- Part 3: The Politics of Pedagogy and the Child -- 7 The Making and Un-Making of a Children's Classic: The Case of Scott's Ivanhoe -- Bruce Beiderwell and Anita Hemphill McCormick -- 8 Heroism Reconsidered: Negotiating Autonomy in St. Nicholas Magazine (1873-1914) -- Susan R. Gannon -- 9 Worlds of Girls: Educational Reform and Fictional Form in L. T. Mead's School Stories -- Mavis Reimer -- Part 4: Remembering Mitzi Myers -- 10 Mitzi Myers: A Memoir (9 October 1939-5 November 2001) -- Patsy Myers -- 11 The Scholarly Legacy of Mitzi Myers -- Gillian Adams with Donelle Ruwe -- 12 A Bibliography of Mitzi Myers's Scholarly Works -- Donelle Ruwe -- Index -- About the Contributors
Summary "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."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography "Bibliography of Mitzi Myers' scholarly works": pages 241-253
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Myers, Mitzi.
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Children -- Books and reading -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Festschriften.
Author Ruwe, Donelle, 1965-
Myers, Mitzi.
LC no. 2004021252
ISBN 0810851822 paperback