Handbook of Adolescent Psychology
By Joseph Adelson (NHC Fellow, 1978–79)
Adolescence
Inventing Adolescence: The Political Psychology of Everyday Schooling
By Joseph Adelson (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) There is a widespread and deep awareness that all is not well with American public education nor with the students, educators, and administrators who are charged with making citizens literate. Joseph Adelson's work has gained considerable prominence in this ongoing reevaluation. Writing with force, verve, and the tools of … Continued
The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835
By Laurie Langbauer (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) A juvenile tradition of young writers flourished in Britain between 1750 and 1835. Canonical Romantic poets as well as now-unknown youthful writers published as teenagers. These teenage writers reflected on their literary juvenilia by using the trope of prolepsis to assert their writing as a literary tradition. Precocious writing, … Continued
Planet Earth Turns Slowly
I was in middle school back in 2010. I would spend most of my time avoiding school work and indulging in online comic books, video games, movies and listening to massive amounts of music. Consuming all this media, you develop a taste for archetypes (this isn’t speaking towards the quality of the archetypes but more … Continued
“Fern Hill”: The Fleeting, Eternal Magnificence of Innocence
I could do several Humanities Hours out of Humanities Moments – there are so many passages and ideas that have animated my imagination. I first find myself drawn to the heart-wrenching climax of Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote, but to describe that would be to reveal the ending, which I would feel queasy doing. So I’m … Continued