Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America - Material Texts - Patricia Crain - Books - University of Pennsylvania Press - 9780812223538 - December 15, 2017
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Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America - Material Texts


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Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring early children's literature, pedagogical practices, property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.


280 pages, 35 color, 45 b/w illus.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 15, 2017
ISBN13 9780812223538
Publishers University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 280
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   680 g

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