American Childhood: Essays on Children's Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Contents: American girlhood in the nineteenth century: Caddie Woodlawn's sisters Nancy Drew and her rivals: no contest Girls' novels in post-World War II America Bad boys: Tom Bailey and Tom Sawyer Good democrats: Ragged Dick and Little Lord Fauntleroy Children's literature for a new nation, 1820-1860 Child and conscience Children, adults, and reading at the turn of the century Images: American children in the early nineteenth century The children of children's literature in the nineteenth century Family stories, 1920- 1940 Censorship and children's literature Ice axes: Robert Cormier and the adolescent novel The transformation of childhood in twentieth-century children's literature