Incorrigibles and Innocents - 9780813591773

Incorrigibles and InnocentsConstructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics\nAuthor(s): Lara Saguisag\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813591773, 978-0813591773\nSynopsis\nNominated for Eisner Award Winner of the 2018 Ray and Pat Browne Award Winner of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the CSS\n 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 childrenwhite and nonwhite, middle-class and lower class, male and femalesuggests that childhood was a subject that fascinated and preoccupied Americans at the turn of the century. Many of these strips, including [url] Outcault's Hogan's Alley and Buster Brown, Rudolph Dirks's The Katzenjammer Kids and Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland.