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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):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Boys in literature.
- Boys--Books and reading--United States.
- Boys.
- Boys--Education--United States--History--19th century.
- Children in literature.
- Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, American.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this groundbreaking book, Ken Parille seeks to do for nineteenth-century boys what the past three decades of scholarship have done for girls: show how the complexities of the fiction and educational materials written about them reflect the lives they lived. While most studies of nineteenth-century boyhood have focused on post-Civil War male novelists, Parille explores a broader archive of writings by male and female authors, extending from 1830-1885.Boys at Home offers a series of arguments about five pedagogical modes: play-adventure, corporal punishment, symp
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613098412
- 9781283098410
- 1283098415
- 9781572336889
- 1572336889
- OCLC:
- 699513588
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