Shapers of American Childhood

Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock to J.K. Rowling
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6455-2
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Prompted by the question, “What would children’s lives have been like if these people had not lived?” Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to J.K. Rowling explores individuals in literature, media, health, business, and other areas who impacted childhood in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Ranging from the recognizable, such Walt Disney and Benjamin Spock, to the less well-known, such as Ernest Thompson Seton and Augusta Braxton Baker, these people left indelible marks on children’s culture as we know it today. Often controversial for their time, their ideas transformed American life, contributing to the ideal of a happy childhood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Kathy Merlock

West, Mark I.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Über Autor(innen)

Kathy Merlock Jackson is a professor of communication at Virginia Wesleyan College, where she teaches media studies and children’s culture. She is the editor of The Journal of American Culture and a former president of the American Culture Association.

Mark I. West is the chair of the English department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited a dozen books on children’s literature and culture and is a former president of the Children’s Literature Association.