Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-19

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Learning How to Feel by Ute Frevert, Pascal Eitler, Stephanie Olsen, Uffa Jensen, Margrit Pernau, Magdalena Beljan, Benno Gammerl, Bettina Hitzer, Daniel Br ckenhaus, Anja Lauk tter Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This volume demonstrates how children, through their reading matter, were provided with learning tools to navigate their emotional lives, presenting this in the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values. Publisher Description Learning How to Feel explores the ways in which children and adolescents learn not just how to express emotions that are thought to be pre-existing, but actually how to feel. The volume assumes that the embryonic ability to feel unfolds through a complex dialogue with the social and cultural environment and specifically through reading material. The fundamental formation takes place in childhood and youth. A multi-authored historical monograph, LearningHow to Feel uses children s literature and advice manuals to access the training practices and learning processes for a wide range of emotions in the modern age, circa 1870-1970. The study takes an internationalapproach, covering a broad array of social, cultural, and political milieus in Britain, Germany, India, Russia, France, Canada, and the United How to Feel places multidirectional learning processes at the centre of t

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2014
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199684991
• Condition: Fine

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