Boys at home : discipline, masculinity, and "the boy-problem" in nineteenth-century American literature / Ken Parille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parille, Ken.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories, American--History and criticism.

Children's stories, American.

Boys in literature.

Children in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Boys--Education--United States--History--19th century.

Boys.

Boys--Books and reading--United States.

Boys--Books and reading.

Boys--Education.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2009]

Contents:

Literary critics and "the boy"

Work and play, pleasure and pedagogy in nineteenth-century boys' novels

"Desirable and necessary" in "families and schools" : boy-nature and physical discipline

"The medicine of sympathy" : mothers, sons, and affective pedagogy in antebellum America

"Wake up, and be a man" : Little women, shame, and the ethic of submission

"What our boys are reading" : Lydia Sigourney, Francis Forrester, and boyhood literacy

Coda : "real boys" of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : educators, academics, and sociologists on boyhood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781572336773

1572336773

OCLC:

317383421