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Learning How to Feel : Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Emotions in History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191508004
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Learning How to FeelDDC classification:
  • 152.4
LOC classification:
  • BF576.L437 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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