Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: From Subjects to Citizens: The Politics of Childhood and Children's Literature -- 1 Youth as a Time of Choice: Children's Reading in Colonial New England -- 2 Affectionate Citizenship: Educating Child Readers for a New Nation -- 3 Child Readers of the Novel: The Problem of Childish Citizenship -- 4 Reading for Social Profit: Economic Citizenship as Children's Citizenship -- 5 Natural Citizenship: Children, Slaves, and the Book of Nature -- CONCLUSION: The Legacy of the Fourteenth Amendment: Limited Thinking on Children's Citizenship -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.