John Zornado

Inventing the Child (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now in paperback, Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the new millennium. J. Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of Calvin, Freud, and Rousseau and culminating with the modern 'consumer' childhood of Dr. Spock and television. The volume discusses major media depictions of childhood and examines the ways in which parents use different forms of media to swaddle, educate, and entertain their children. Zornado argues that the stories we tell our children contain the ideologies of the dominant culture - which, more often than not, promote 'happiness' at all costs, materialism as the way to happiness, and above all, obedience to the dominant order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135862978
• Artikelnr.: 39909747

Autorenporträt

John Zornado is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. History as Human Relationship 2. Freud, Shakespeare and
Hamlet as Children's Literature 3. The Brothers Grimm: The Black Pedagogy
and the Roots of Fascist Culture 4. Victorian Imperialsim and the Golden
Age of Children's Literature 5. Walt Disney, Ideological Transposition and
the Child 6. Maurice Sendak and the Detachment Child 7. Conclusion: The
Etiology of Consumerism