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"Learn to love your book": the child reader and affectionate citizenship.(Critical essay)
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Early American Literature
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January 1, 2008
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- Weikle-Mills, Courtney A.
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In one of the first children's books to cross the Atlantic, The Child's New Play-Thing (1750), a child character asks how he is to become a good citizen. The answer: he must learn to "love his book" and to keep company only with other children who do the same (73). This lesson signaled a relatively new posture that child readers were asked to take, but by the end of the century, "loving one's book"--referring sometimes to the Bible, but just as often to one's primer or favorite children's story--had become a pervasive idiom for all forms of moral wholesomeness, revealing a deep cultural investment in affectionate relationships. The rhetoric of affection permeated not only the ...
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