Schoolroom Poets
Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917

Angela Sorby

University of New Hampshire Press
University Press of New England

Table of 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




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