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Reading children : (Record no. 39030)

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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field	02471cam a2200181 i 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	978081223538
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	305.23097
Item number	CRA-R
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Crain, Patricia,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Reading children :
Sub Title	literacy, property, and the dilemmas of childhood in nineteenth-century America /
Statement of responsibility, etc	Patricia Crain.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication	Philadelphia:
Name of publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year of publication	2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	247 pages ;
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	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 literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.<br/><br/>The nursery and schoolroom version of the social contract, Crain argues, underwrote children's entry not only into reading and writing but also into a world of commodity and property relations. Increasingly positioned as an indispensable form of cultural capital by the end of the eighteenth century, literacy became both the means and the symbol of children's newly recognized self-possession and autonomy. At the same time, as children's legal and economic status was changing, "childhood" emerged as an object of nostalgia for adults. Literature for children enacted the terms of children's self-possession, often with explicit references to property, contracts, or inheritances, and yet also framed adult longing for an imagined past called "childhood."<br/><br/>Dozens of colorful illustrations chart the ways in which early literature for children was transformed into spectacle through new image technologies and a burgeoning marketplace that capitalized on nostalgic fantasies of childhood conflated with bowdlerized fantasies of history. Reading Children offers new terms for thinking about the imbricated and mutually constitutive histories of literacy, property, and childhood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that ground current anxieties and long-held beliefs about childhood and reading.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Children
Geographic subdivision	United States
General subdivision	Social conditions
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Literacy
General subdivision	Books and reading
Geographic subdivision	United States
General subdivision	History
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Children's literature
General subdivision	History
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Home library	Current library	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price	Bill Date	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Accession Number	Date last seen	Cost, replacement price	Price effective from	Koha item type
				NASSDOC Library	NASSDOC Library	21/03/2024	Overseas Press Pvt LTD	2438.86	20-03-24		305.23097 CRA-R	54169	27/04/2024	3752.10	20/03/2024	Books