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1 online resource |
| Series |
The Rutgers series in childhood studies |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Introduction: mapping the urban child -- Boys, movies, and city streets, or the dead end kids as modernists -- Shirley Temple as streetwalker: girls, streets, and encounters with men -- Neglect at home: rejecting mothers and middle class kids -- "The odds are against him": archives of unhappiness among black urban boys -- Helicopters and catastrophes: the failure to neglect and neglect as failure |
| Summary |
From Harriet the Spy to Hugo Cabret, American popular culture is filled with fictional children who journey through cities, unsupervised by adults. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient urban child originated and considers why it persists, even in the era of stranger danger and helicopter parenting. Drawing from a wide range of films, novels, and sociological texts, Pamela Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have been central to how Americans imagine the freedom and neglect of children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Project Muse Evidence Based Selection |
| Subject |
City and town life in literature.
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City children in literature.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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City and town life in motion pictures.
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City children in motion pictures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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City and town life in literature
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City and town life in motion pictures
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City children in literature
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City children in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016003240 |
| ISBN |
9780813564494 |
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0813564492 |
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