We've spent much of the semester discussing constructions of childhood in American Literature. We're working on a critical framework of sorts, developing heuristics and methods for approaching literature including children and aspects of childhood. Our first formal blog posting, then, will help us further develop these theories and ideas.
In this week's blog posting, I'd like you to isolate 5 main theories for analyzing children and childhood literature. Please draw on both MacLeod's "Children's Literature for a New Nation" and Sanchez-Eppler's introduction to Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. As you develop these theories, please make sure you reference the MacLeod and Sanchez-Eppler, proving textual evidence for the theories you develop-- even if your ideas contest or contradict the authors' claims.
Please remember that your posting is due by 9 AM on Thursday, January 21. Remember, also, that your 3 comments on your peers' blogs are due by 5 PM on Friday, January 22.
Happy Blogging!!
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