Inventing the Child (Childrens Literature and Culture)

Inventing the Child by Joseph L. Now in paperback, Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child and a parent in America at the dawn of the new millennium.

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Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of Calvin, Freud, and Rousseau and culminating with the modern 'consumer' child Now in paperback, Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child and a parent in America at the dawn of the new millennium. Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of Calvin, Freud, and Rousseau and culminating with the modern 'consumer' childhood of Dr.

The volume discusses major media depictions of childhood and examines the ways in which parents use different forms of media to swaddle, educate, and entertain their children. Zornado argues that the stories we tell our children contain the ideologies of the dominant culture - which, more often than not, promote 'happiness' at all costs, materialism as the way to happiness, and above all, obedience to the dominant order. Paperback , pages.

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Nov 22, Gretchen rated it liked it Shelves: Not an optimistic portrayal of childhood, but still a refreshing one. Zornado makes an interesting study of childhood through literary culture from Shakespeare to Sendak and how the parent-child relationship is a violent power struggle to maintain the dominant ideology of the day. Fearsomely under-argued, aggressive, sexist and reductive.

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Anne's second novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , written in realistic rather than romantic style, is mainly considered to be the first sustained feminist novel.

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In the later decades of the Victorian era Thomas Hardy was the most important novelist. Other significant novelists of this era were Elizabeth Gaskell — , Anthony Trollope — , George Meredith — , and George Gissing — Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning conducted their love affair through verse and produced many tender and passionate poems.

Both Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote poems which sit somewhere in between the exultation of nature of the romantic Poetry and the Georgian Poetry of the early 20th century. However Hopkins's poetry was not published until Arnold's works anticipate some of the themes of these later poets, while Hopkins drew inspiration from verse forms of Old English poetry such as Beowulf. The reclaiming of the past was a major part of Victorian literature with an interest in both classical literature but also the medieval literature of England.

The Victorians loved the heroic, chivalrous stories of knights of old and they hoped to regain some of that noble, courtly behaviour and impress it upon the people both at home and in the wider empire. The best example of this is Alfred Tennyson 's Idylls of the King , which blended the stories of King Arthur , particularly those by Thomas Malory , with contemporary concerns and ideas.

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood also drew on myth and folklore for their art, with Dante Gabriel Rossetti contemporaneously regarded as the chief poet amongst them, although his sister Christina is now held by scholars to be a stronger poet. The first play to achieve consecutive performances was the London comedy Our Boys by H. Byron , opening in Its astonishing new record of 1, performances was bested in by Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. Gilbert , Oscar Wilde became the leading poet and dramatist of the late Victorian period.

Wilde's comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest , was the greatest of the plays in which he held an ironic mirror to the aristocracy while displaying virtuosic mastery of wit and paradoxical wisdom. It has remained extremely popular. The Victorians are credited with 'inventing childhood', partly via their efforts to stop child labour and the introduction of compulsory education.

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As children began to be able to read, literature for young people became a growth industry, with not only established writers producing works for children such as Dickens' A Child's History of England but also a new group of dedicated children's authors. Writers like Lewis Carroll , R. Ballantyne and Anna Sewell wrote mainly for children, although they had an adult following. Other authors such as Anthony Hope and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote mainly for adults, but their adventure novels are now generally classified as for children. Other genres include nonsense verse , poetry which required a childlike interest e.

Compiling folk tales by many authors with different topics made it possible for children to read literature by and about lots of different things that interested them. There were different types of books and magazines written for boys and girls.

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Girls' stories tended to be domestic and to focus on family life, whereas boys' stories were more about adventures. The Victorian era was an important time for the development of science and the Victorians had a mission to describe and classify the entire natural world.



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Much of this writing does not rise to the level of being regarded as literature but one book in particular, Charles Darwin 's On the Origin of Species , remains famous. The fourth chapter gives a broader view of Victorian era child-rearing practices and shows how the works of Carroll and Grahame ultimately reflect those practices in ironic fashion as they each try to provide social critique on the major beliefs of their respective times.

The chapter ends with a discussion of how Babar and Curious George are later extensions of the notion of colonization and its attendant racist ideology that is a product of Victorian era thinking. Walt Disney is the subject of the fifth chapter. Disney's life is read as an example of how the poisonous child-rearing practices of domination, subjugation, and violence are reflected in Disney's relationship to his workers and his company's textual production and those products' inevitable subtexts of racism, hierarchy, and violence. Disney, it is argued, is an unconscious vehicle of the dominant child-rearing ideology and merely replicates in his life and work what he knew from his own violent upbringing.

In contrast, Sendak's work consciously reflects what the dominant culture does to children. In the sixth chapter we are told of Sendak's dominant theme, which he If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. View freely available titles: Book titles OR Journal titles.