Date Available
4-23-2020
Year of Publication
2020
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
English
First Advisor
Dr. Marion Rust
Abstract
Through this dissertation, I explore the ways that authors and editors use the form of children’s periodicals to discuss questions of childhood independence, the structure of the family, and the balance of power between children and adults with regards to literary texts. I examine the ways in which adults and children negotiate control over the periodicals and over the images of transformation present within those texts. Periodicals offer a unique opportunity for interaction between readers and editors. Magazines and newspapers encouraged readers to write into the magazine to offer their own insights and opinions. Readers of children’s magazines even had opportunities to contribute to the text itself. I pay close attention to the development of relationships both within the texts themselves as well as between the readers of the texts and the authors and editors creating those texts in order to deepen our understanding of these types of texts and the way they contribute to the field of children’s literature.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2020.245
Recommended Citation
DeHaven, Emily R., "TRANSFORMATIVE SUBJECTS: AMERICAN CHILDREN’S PERIODICALS, 1855-1905" (2020). Theses and Dissertations--English. 115.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/115
Included in
Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons
