Stronger, Truer, Bolder: Nineteenth-Century American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment
- ISBN-10
- 0820358592
- ISBN-13
- 9780820358598
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-05-15
- Author
- Karen L. Kilcup
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Playing in the dirt : nineteenth-century children and their environmental literature -- Children's environmental literature in the nineteenth-century United States and beyond -- "Frightful stories" : savage nature, civilized culture in the ...
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