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Author Beissel Heath, Michelle, author

Title Nineteenth-century fictions of childhood and the politics of play / Michelle Beissel Heath
Edition First edition
Published New York : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
Studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
Contents Chapter Introduction: Playful literary citizenship -- chapter 1 Cultivating citizenship in the parlor: Transatlantic rivalries and respectability in nineteenth century board, card, and parlor games -- chapter 2 Never and always a woman: Citizenship, croquet, and the nineteenth century growing girl -- chapter 3 Citizenship on the world's stage: Kipling's novels of boyhood and the boy scouts -- chapter 4 2'Art for art' is their motto3: Aesthetic citizenship, children's play, and class politics in the eyes and hands of Burnett and Nesbit
Summary "Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children's and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of as "playful literary citizenship," or some of the motivations inherent in later nineteenth and early twentieth century Anglo-American play pursuits as they relate to interest in shaping citizens through investment in "good" literature. Tracing play, as a societal and historical construct, as it surfaces time and again in children's literary texts as well as children's literary texts as they surface time and again in situations and environments of children's play, this book undiferscores how play and literature are consistently deployed in tandem in attempts to create ideal citizens--even as those ideals varied greatly and were dependent on factors such as gendifer, ethnicity, colonial status, and class."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 28, 2017)
Subject Children in literature.
Play in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Children in literature
Play in literature
Form Electronic book
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