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Learning to Behave Sarah E Newton

Learning to Behave By Sarah E Newton

Learning to Behave by Sarah E Newton


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This guide provides an analytic and historical overview of the American conduct book as a genre, and of its cultural effect upon America. It includes over 500 titles designed for children, men and women. In addition the work carries a short, selected bibliography of secondary sources.

Learning to Behave Summary

Learning to Behave: A Guide to American Conduct Books Before 1900 by Sarah E Newton

A popular genre from colonial times to 1900, the conduct book provides the youthful reader with authoritative guidance about right moral, religious, and gender role behavior. With the aim of teaching the young what they need to know--and believe--about society's expectations for the ideal young man and woman, the genre codified true American manhood and womanhood. Until now, conduct books have been mixed in and cataloged with books on manners, etiquette, education, religion, or success. This guide provides an analytic and historical overview of the conduct book as a genre and its cultural work in America. With an annotated bibliography of over 500 books, it is the first work to provide scholars interested in studying the cultural stance, intent, and importance of conduct-of-life texts with easy access to conduct books.

The book provides an extensive overview of the conduct book, with separate chapters on the development of conduct books for children, men, and women. The fully annotated bibliography, which lists the conduct books by their intended audience, includes 196 conduct books for children, 142 texts for young men, 188 titles for young women, and 57 texts for adults of either sex. In addition, the work includes a short selected bibliography of secondary sources and an index. This guide opens the genre for further study.

About Sarah E Newton

SARAH E. NEWTON is professor of English and American Studies at California State University, Chico. She has published articles on early American fiction and American folklore, and is currently working on a collection of 18th- and 19th-century moral stories for American children and a critical anthology of American women nature writers.

Table of Contents

Introduction Conduct Books for Children Conduct Books for Men Conduct Books for Women Notes The Bibliography Selected Secondary Bibliography Index

Additional information

NPB9780313267529
9780313267529
0313267529
Learning to Behave: A Guide to American Conduct Books Before 1900 by Sarah E Newton
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1994-05-25
248
N/A
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