{"product_id":"incorrigibles-and-innocents-constructing-childhood-and-citizenship-in-progressive-era-comics-hardback-9780813591773","title":"Incorrigibles and Innocents; Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics (Hardback) 9780813591773","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIncorrigibles and Innocents\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConstructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLara Saguisag (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813591773\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 October 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 50 color pictures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.029 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"A model for how the careful and deliberate archival study of comics can shine new light both on well-worn received histories and on the literature of the present, precisely through an appropriately unshakeable commitment to being a very serious reader of the funny pages.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— American Literature\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This engaging and sophisticated book addresses how progressive-era comics used the figure of the child as a locus of debate about gender, race, class and citizenship. Saguisag's doing a great public service to comics history here!\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Philip Nel, author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need fo\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIncorrigibles and Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e provides an exciting model for many more reevaluations of familiar texts in comic studies. It also challenges scholars to read these popular texts in the context of the myriad other, and less known, newspaper strips or comic book series to get a true sense of the reach of the ideas and assumptions that shaped consumer and political cultures of the past.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— H-Net\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Incorrigibles and Innocents is an original and welcome addition to both childhood studies and comics studies. Saguisag demonstrates that for these fields to reach their full potential, they must better account for each other.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Historians have too long ignored comic strips as source material. Lara Saguisag impeccably unpacks kid comic strips to reveal their complex discourse on childhood and citizenship in Progressive Era America.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Ian Gordon, author of Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-November-2\/244941\"'\u003e\"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book list,\" by Nina C. Ayoub\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e— Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Transitions-Georgia-Institute\/246478\"'\u003e\"Transitions: Georgia Institute of Technology Selects New Chief, CUNY York College President to Step Down,\" compiled by Julia Piper\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e— Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Saguisag's \u003ci\u003eIncorrigibles\u003c\/i\u003e offers both a welcome glimpse into the untapped potential of early newspaper comics and an invitation to keep reading more.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Inks: Journal of the Comics Studies Society\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Amazing work—an invaluable contribution to scholarship at the crossroads of comics studies, childhood studies, children's literature, and cultural and political history. I wish I had written \u003ci\u003eIncorrigibles and Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e myself—and it will definitely be in my classrooms going forward!\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Charles Hatfield, author of Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Gives a thought-provoking discussion of race, nation, gender, citizenship, and the child....Saguisag's work in this monograph is salient and thorough. Not only this, but Saguisag's writing is accessible, sharp, and engaging. She clearly charts the political lineages of these comics from the nineteenth century to today. In doing so, she opens avenues for scholars of many different areas within children's literature or adjacent fields to engage with her research.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Research on Diversity in Youth Literature\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Saguisag attends rigorously to the manifold cultural, political, and economic dimensions of Progressive Era America.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNominated for Eisner Award   Winner of the 2018 Ray and Pat Browne Award   Winner of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the CSS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Histories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity, class, and gender were expressed, perpetuated, and alleviated. The proliferation of comic strip children—white and nonwhite, middle-class and lower class, male and female—suggests that childhood was a subject that fascinated and preoccupied Americans at the turn of the century. Many of these strips, including R.F. Outcault's \u003ci\u003eHogan's Alley\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBuster Brown\u003c\/i\u003e, Rudolph Dirks's \u003ci\u003eThe Katzenjammer Kids\u003c\/i\u003e and Winsor McCay's \u003ci\u003eLittle Nemo in Slumberland\u003c\/i\u003e were headlined by child characters. Yet no major study has explored the significance of these verbal-visual representations of childhood. \u003ci\u003eIncorrigibles and Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e addresses this gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips. Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had a right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation. \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Drawing the Lines\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeign Yet Familiar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrossing the Color Line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily Amusements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe \"Secret Tracts\" of the Child's Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Would You Do with Girls Like These?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003eConclusion: Naughty Boys in a New Millennium\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563723551000,"sku":"9780813591773","price":123.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/incorrigibles-and-innocents-constructing-childhood-and-citizenship-in-progressive-era-comics-hardback-9780813591773","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}