TY - BOOK AU - Saguisag,Lara TI - Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics SN - 9780813591773 AV - PN6725 .S35 2019 U1 - 741.5/973 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New Brunswick, NJ : PB - Rutgers University Press, KW - Children in literature KW - Citizenship in literature KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society KW - History KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - childhood, citizenship, comics, Progressive Era, The Yellow Kid, Buster Brown, The Katzenjammer Kids, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Little Ah Sid, Jap "It", Made the Magician's Daughter, Betsy Bouncer and Her Doll, comic books, graphic novels, comic strips N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1. FOREIGN YET FAMILIAR --; Chapter 2. CROSSING THE COLOR LINE --; Chapter 3. FAMILY AMUSEMENTS --; Chapter 4. THE "SECRET TRACTS" OF THE CHILD'S MIND --; Chapter 5. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH GIRLS LIKE THESE? --; CONCLUSION. Naughty Boys in a New Millennium --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 Hogan's Alley and Buster Brown, Rudolph Dirks's The Katzenjammer Kids and Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland were headlined by child characters. Yet no major study has explored the significance of these verbal-visual representations of childhood. Incorrigibles and Innocents 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813591803?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813591803 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813591803.jpg ER -