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The Romantic Invention of Childhood

Primary

  • Alcott, A Modern Cinderella
  • Andersen, Five Tales
  • Blake Poems
  • Charles and Mary Lamb, Poems for Children
  • Coleridge, Aeolian Harp, Frost at Midnight, and The Nightingale
  • Coleridge, Letter
  • Emerson, Each and All
  • Finney, Excerpt
  • Grimms Tales, Selected
  • History of Goody Two-Shoes, Text
  • Issac Watts
  • Locke, Some Thoughts on Education, on reading
  • Poe, Sleeper, The Lake, Alone
  • Southey, The Idiot
  • Struwwelpeter, Excerpts
  • The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 6
  • Trimmer to Rigby
  • Twain, Post-Mortem Poetry
  • Twain, Wit Wisdom of 2 yr olds
  • Whitman, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
  • Whitman, There was a Child went Forth
  • Wordsworth, Poems

Secondary

  • Barbarese, Taking Poe Seriously
  • Bixler, Nurturant Power
  • Gruner, Saving Cinderella
  • Jane Smiley, Say it Ain’t So
  • Keyser, Review of Bixler 98
  • Kline, Making of Childrens Culture
  • Locke, Some Thoughts on Education, on Reading
  • Rose, The Case against Peter Pan
  • Ruwe on Trimmer
  • Zipes Breaking the Disney Spell

J.T. Barbarese

Barbarese

Department of English
Armitage Hall, Room 481
311 N. Fifth St.
Camden NJ 08102
Phone: (856) 225-6556
barbarese@camden.rutgers.edu

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