{"product_id":"incorrigibles-and-innocents","title":"Incorrigibles and Innocents","description":"\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\nHistories 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. ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54221843530072,"sku":"9780813591773","price":136.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813591773__67655286d340d.jpg?v=1741159867","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/incorrigibles-and-innocents","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}