TY - BOOK AU - Weikle-Mills,Courtney TI - Imaginary citizens: child readers and the limits of American independence, 1640-1868 SN - 9781421408071 AV - PS490 .I434 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Children KW - Books and reading KW - United States KW - History KW - Children's literature, American KW - History and criticism KW - Citizenship KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: From Subjects to Citizens: The Politics of Childhood and Children�s Literature""; ""1 Youth as a Time of Choice: Children�s Reading in Colonial New England""; ""2 Affectionate Citizenship: Educating Child Readers for a New Nation""; ""3 Child Readers of the Novel: The Problem of Childish Citizenship""; ""4 Reading for Social Profit: Economic Citizenship as Children�s Citizenship""; ""5 Natural Citizenship: Children, Slaves, and the Book of Nature""; ""CONCLUSION: The Legacy of the Fourteenth Amendment: Limited Thinking on Children�s Citizenship""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=601117&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -