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Series Editor's Foreward List of Figures Introduction Monika Elbert1. Civic Duties and Moral Pitfalls "A Just, A Useful Part":Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Contributions to TheJuvenile Miscellany and The Youth's Companion Lorinda B. CohoonCharitable (Mis)givings and the Aesthetics of Poverty in Louisa May Alcott'sChristmas Stories Monika Elbert "Hints Dropped Here and There":Constructing Exclusion in St. Nicholas, Volume I Melissa Fowler and JanetGray "One extra little girl": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's OrphansRoxanne Harde 2. Politicizing Children: "Normalization" and thePlace of the Marginalized Child "A is an Abolitionist": TheAnti-Slavery Alphabet and the Politics of Literacy Martha SledgeOvercoming Racism in Jacob Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and Lucky and inAntebellum America Jeannette Barnes Lessels and Eric Sterling "I amyour slave for love": Race, Sentimentality, and Harriet Beecher Stowe'sFiction for Children Lesley Ginsberg Shut-ins, Shut-outs, and Spofford'sOther Children: The Hester Stanley Stories Rita Bode 3. Sentimental andRealistic Constructs of Childhood Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping ofMasculinity in Nineteenth-Century America Shawn Thomson "thecleverest children's book written here": Elizabeth Stoddard's LollyDinks's Doings and the Subversion of Social Conventions Maria Holmgren TroyA Sentimental Childhood: The Unlikely Memoirs of Realist-Era WritersMelanie Dawson The Cultural Work of Kate Douglas Wiggin: Cultivating theChild's Garden Anne Lundin 4. Education and Shifting Paradigms of theChild's Mind "Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop":Invention and Technology in Books for Children, 1850-1990 Eric S. HintzNatural History for Children and the Agassiz Association J.D. Stahl GoodMasters: Child-Animal Relationships in the Writings of Mark Twain and G.Stanley Hall Joan Menefee Child Consciousness in the American Novel:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), What Maisie Knew (1897), and the Birthof Child Psychology Holly Blackford Contributors Bibliography Index