| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 153 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"In this 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 to 1885. Boys at Home offers a series of arguments about five pedagogical modes: play-adventure, corporal punishment, sympathy, shame, and reading."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-138) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's stories, American -- History and criticism
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Boys in literature.
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Children in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Boys -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Boys -- Books and reading -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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American fiction
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Boys -- Books and reading
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Boys -- Education
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Boys in literature
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Children in literature
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Children's stories, American
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Masculinity in literature
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Kinderliteratur
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Jungenbild
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Männlichkeit
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781572336889 |
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1572336889 |
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