Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America
by
Patricia Crain
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's...