Learning How to Feel : Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191508004
- 152.4
- BF576.L437 2014eb
Cover -- Learning How to Feel -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 Mrs Gaskell's Anxiety -- 2 Dickon's Trust -- 3 Asghari's Piety -- 4 Ralph's Compassion -- 5 Doctor Dolittle's Empathy -- 6 Wendy's Love -- 7 Piggy's Shame -- 8 Lebrac's Pain -- 9 Jim Button's Fear -- 10 Ivan's Bravery -- 11 Heidi's Homesickness -- 12 Ingrid's Boredom -- Epilogue: Translating Books, Translating Emotions -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Work Titles.
This volume demonstrates how children, through their reading matter, were provided with learning tools to navigate their emotional lives, presenting this in the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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