Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature

Author/Contributor(s):	Lundin, Anne ; Wiegand, Wayne A
Publisher:	Libraries Unlimited
Date:	05/30/2003
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the reader. Moreover, the authors join a cultural debate over the nature of childhood in specific historical periods.