Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.
Contents
Learning by heart -- Reading America: Longfellow in the schools -- Learning to be white: John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-bound -- A visit from St. Nicholas: pedagogy, power, and print culture -- Performing class: James Whitcomb Riley onstage -- "Seein' things at night": Eugene Field and the infantilization of American culture -- Emily Dickinson and the form of childhood.