Dependent States

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Child's Part in the Making of American Culture
Part One: Childhood Fictions: Imagining Literacy and Literature
1. The Writing of Childhood
Childhood Reading from Primers to Novels
The Lessons of Children's Diaries
Childhood and Authority in Our Nig
Hawthorne and the Mind of a Child
Part Two: The Child and the Making of Home: Questions of Love, Power, and the Market
2. Temperance in the Bed of a Child
Love and the Law
Readers and Drinkers
Restraint and Indulgence
Submissive Daughters, Absent Women, and Effeminate Men
3. The Death of a Child and the Replication of an Image
Keeping Loss in Drawers Full of Graves
Emerson's Vain Clutching
The Sentimental Surplus of Smitten Households
Part Three: Rearing a Nation: Childhood and the Construction of Social Identity
4. Playing at Class
Newsboy Narratives
"We Must Have a Little Fun"
5. Raising Empires Like Children
Domestic Empires: Questioning the Boundaries of the Home
Domestic Empires: Questioning the Boundaries of the Nation
Coloring American Faith
Little Angels and Little Heathens
Domestic Savagery
The Missionary at Home
Coda: Of Children and Flags
Bibliography
Index