Title
- Becoming Modern
Attribution
Angela SorbyPublication Details
BookUniversity of New Hampshire Press2005Availability
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Description
As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Little Orphan Annie,” and “The Song of Hiawatha.” According to Angela Sorby, these and hundreds of other child-oriented poems, written less for individual introspection than for public performance, became central components of American culture in the period between the Civil War and World War I. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Children’s poetry, American — History and criticism
- American poetry — 19th century — History and criticism
- Children — Books and reading — United States — History — 19th century
- Children — Books and reading — United States — History — 20th century
- Poetry — Study and teaching — United States — History — 19th century
- Poetry — Study and teaching — United States — History — 20th century
- Oral interpretation of poetry — History — 19th century
- Oral interpretation of poetry — History — 20th century
- American poetry — 20th century — History and criticism
- Children — United States — Intellectual life
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Contents
- Learning by heart
- Reading America: Longfellow in the schools
- Learning to be white: John Greenleaf Whittier’s Snow-bound
- A visit from St. Nicholas: pedagogy, power, and print culture
- Performing class: James Whitcomb Riley onstage
- "Seein’ things at night": Eugene Field and the infantilization of American culture
- Emily Dickinson and the form of childhood
ISBN
- 1584654589
- 1584654570
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