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From sermons in stone to studies in science: The transformation of 19th-century juvenile natural history.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From sermons in stone to studies in science: The transformation of 19th-century juvenile natural history./
Author:	Dyson, Jon-Paul Charles.
Description:	454 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-01, Section: A, page: 0331.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-01A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3039891
ISBN:	0493531416

From sermons in stone to studies in science: The transformation of 19th-century juvenile natural history.
Dyson, Jon-Paul Charles.

From sermons in stone to studies in science: The transformation of 19th-century juvenile natural history. - 454 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-01, Section: A, page: 0331.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2002.

This dissertation seeks to explain the social, cultural, and economic factors that transformed the ways nineteenth-century American children learned about, encountered, and understood the natural world. It highlights the interests, tastes, and fears of the middle-class as key factors in the transformation of children's relationship to nature. Developments such as the quest for gentility and refinement, the evolution of religious practices and beliefs, the print revolution, the popularity of Romanticism, the marginalization of women, the rise of professionalization, the impact of industrialization, and the growth of cities all helped shape nineteenth-century children's relationship to nature.

ISBN: 0493531416Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

From sermons in stone to studies in science: The transformation of 19th-century juvenile natural history.
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520 $a For much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries adults had taught children to see nature as a world of wonders in which God acted out his Providential design. During the early republic, however, Americans, especially women, increasingly valued more refined and genteel interpretations of nature that invoked discrete segments of nature for their ability to cultivate morals, evidence the existence of God, and mold children's behavior. The print revolution that swept America during this period abetted this process. During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, increasing numbers of adults began to use religious publications, schoolbooks, literature, and domestic amusements to involve children with the natural world in ways that were variously religious or Romantic. As a result nature became an accepted and valued segment of middle-class life. Ironically, however, these efforts also helped separate religious from secular interpretations of nature, and changes in fashions, literary techniques, and parenting techniques allowed children more autonomy to interpret nature as they wished.
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