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