Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5205+4294965993+7517 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1044101 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=666196 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=445603 In this fresh and surprising book, the Beats are revealed in a collection of 100 candid photos, unexpected essays, and pop culture depictions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380249 Perfect for browsing or study, this book is a fascinating guide to Americas greatest writers beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through contemporary authors. The dictionary is the official companion to the C-SPAN series American Writers: A Journey Through History. 150+ photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=122341 In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of childrens stories. A social historian and literary critic of genuine insight, MacLeod has helped to pioneer an approach to American culture through the childrens literature that arises from it: When I read books written for children, MacLeod comments in her preface, I look for authors views, certainly, but I also try to discover what the culture is saying about itself, about the present and the future, and about the nature and purposes of childhood....Childrens books dont mirror their culture, but they do always, no matter how indirectly, convey some of its central truths. Most of the essays concern domestic novels for children - stories set more or less in the time of their publication and meant for adolescent and teen readers. Some essays also draw creatively on childhood memoirs, travel writings that contain foreigners observations of American children, and other studies of childrens literature. MacLeod looks beyond the books to their unwritten subtexts - to the interplay between writers adherence to conventions, their own memories of youth, and their adult concerns. She probes as well the tension between the literal, superficial images and themes of the stories and the realities of the surrounding culture. Beading across historical periods, MacLeod traces changes in our attitudes toward children and shows how they have paralleled or departed from the characteristic tone of each era. The topics on which she writes range from the recently politicized marketplace for childrens books to the reestablishment (and reconfiguration) of the family in the latest childrens fiction to the ways that literature challenges or enforces the idealization of children. MacLeod sometimes considers a single authors canon, as when she discusses the feminism of the Nancy Drew mystery series or the Orwellian vision of Robert Cormier. At other times, she looks at a variety of works within a particular period, for example, Jacksonian America, the post-World War II decade, or the 1970s. MacLeod examines anew books that she feels have been too quickly dismissed - the Horatio Alger stories, for example - and finds fresh, intriguing ways to view the work of such well-known writers as Louisa May Alcott, Beverly Cleary, and Paul Zindel. Five of the essays in American Childhood have never before been published; four of the remaining essays have been substantially revised and expanded since they first appeared. All are a testament to the revelatory powers of childrens literature and to our deep emotional investment in young people.--BOOK JACKET.