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From: Danielle Bishop <Danielle.Bishop>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:51:34 -0600
apologies if this has already been posted...
>>Date: Wed 26 Oct 12:26:40 EDT 2005
>>From: Monika Elbert <elbertm at mail.montclair.edu>
>>
>>I am seeking potential contributors for a proposed collection of essays on
>>nineteenth-century American children???s literature and cultural/historical
>>contexts. How is the social milieu embedded in children???s fiction or
>>non-fiction? The following topics are suggestions, but the list is not
>>meant to be exhaustive.
>>
>>Perceptions of race, gender, and class in children's periodicals or
>>children's books (single authors, or multiple authors, popular or
>>canonical); canonical vs. non-canonical children's writers; changing
>>concepts of success (materialism); children and work; children and
>>history (historical events, such as the Civil War, or mythologizing of
>>earlier American history); children and slavery; children and the urban
>>landscape; Transcendentalist or utopian children; children and holidays;
>>changing gender roles (New Woman, etc.); the changing nature of
>>child-rearing manuals; children and morality/religion, or changing
>>concepts of etiquette; children and pets; children on the frontier
>>(myths of the frontier); children's counter-culture to adult culture;
>>children and science/technology; children's fears (as recorded in the
>>many advice manuals, or advice columns, or embodied in cautionary
>>tales); children and vice/punishment; children and violence; children
>>and taboos; children and hero worship; children and adult classics
>>(reading); children's changing position within the family unit;
>>children's health/illness; perceptions of the immigrant child; Native
>>American children; African-American children; the sentimental/Romantic
>>vs. the Realistic child; changing views of education; children's ghost
>>stories; children's icons; children and food; children and global issues
>>(depictions of Africa, China); children and the Gilded Age;
>>intersections between juvenile and adult literature by canonical authors
>>(such as Chopin, Phelps, Davis, Hawthorne); literary or political
>>relationships between and among children's authors and editors of
>>children's periodicals.
>>
>>Please send inquiries and abstracts (of two pages) via e-mail, by
>>December 18, 2005, to:
>>Monika Elbert (elbertm at mail.montclair.edu)
>>Professor of English
>>Montclair State Univ.
>>Montclair, N.J. 07043
>>Final essays of 5,000-6,000 words will not be due until March 30, 2006.
>>
>>Monika Elbert
>><elbertm at mail.montclair.edu>
Received on Tue 01 Nov 2005 08:51:34 AM CST
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:51:34 -0600
apologies if this has already been posted...
>>Date: Wed 26 Oct 12:26:40 EDT 2005
>>From: Monika Elbert <elbertm at mail.montclair.edu>
>>
>>I am seeking potential contributors for a proposed collection of essays on
>>nineteenth-century American children???s literature and cultural/historical
>>contexts. How is the social milieu embedded in children???s fiction or
>>non-fiction? The following topics are suggestions, but the list is not
>>meant to be exhaustive.
>>
>>Perceptions of race, gender, and class in children's periodicals or
>>children's books (single authors, or multiple authors, popular or
>>canonical); canonical vs. non-canonical children's writers; changing
>>concepts of success (materialism); children and work; children and
>>history (historical events, such as the Civil War, or mythologizing of
>>earlier American history); children and slavery; children and the urban
>>landscape; Transcendentalist or utopian children; children and holidays;
>>changing gender roles (New Woman, etc.); the changing nature of
>>child-rearing manuals; children and morality/religion, or changing
>>concepts of etiquette; children and pets; children on the frontier
>>(myths of the frontier); children's counter-culture to adult culture;
>>children and science/technology; children's fears (as recorded in the
>>many advice manuals, or advice columns, or embodied in cautionary
>>tales); children and vice/punishment; children and violence; children
>>and taboos; children and hero worship; children and adult classics
>>(reading); children's changing position within the family unit;
>>children's health/illness; perceptions of the immigrant child; Native
>>American children; African-American children; the sentimental/Romantic
>>vs. the Realistic child; changing views of education; children's ghost
>>stories; children's icons; children and food; children and global issues
>>(depictions of Africa, China); children and the Gilded Age;
>>intersections between juvenile and adult literature by canonical authors
>>(such as Chopin, Phelps, Davis, Hawthorne); literary or political
>>relationships between and among children's authors and editors of
>>children's periodicals.
>>
>>Please send inquiries and abstracts (of two pages) via e-mail, by
>>December 18, 2005, to:
>>Monika Elbert (elbertm at mail.montclair.edu)
>>Professor of English
>>Montclair State Univ.
>>Montclair, N.J. 07043
>>Final essays of 5,000-6,000 words will not be due until March 30, 2006.
>>
>>Monika Elbert
>><elbertm at mail.montclair.edu>
Received on Tue 01 Nov 2005 08:51:34 AM CST
