Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment Kilcup Karen L.
Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment Kilcup Karen L. Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph…
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Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment Kilcup Karen L.
Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)-- and many not so famous--wrote literature for children; many contributed regularly to children's periodicals, and many entered the field of nature writing, responding to and forwarding the century's huge social and cultural changes. Though these volumes aimed at a relatively conservative and mostly white, middle-class, and affluent audience, some selections allowed both children and their parents room for imaginative escape from restrictive social norms.Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as laboring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder Appreciating America's unique natural wonders dovetailed with children's growth as citizens, but children's journals often exceeded a pedagogical purpose, intending also to entertain and delight.