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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154608603321

Autore

Holt Jenny <1973-, >

Titolo

Public school literature, civic education and the politics of male adolescence / / Jenny Holt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-24564-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Collana

Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

Disciplina

820.9/9282

Soggetti

Children's literature, English - History and criticism

School children in literature

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Boys - Books and reading - Great Britain

Children - Books and reading - England - History - 19th century

Children - Books and reading - England - History - 20th century

Education - Great Britain - History

Adolescence in literature

Education in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The crisis of youth and the public school reformation -- 2. An education for active citizenship : Tom Brown's schooldays -- 3. 'Beastly Erikin' : nature, God and the adolescent boy -- 4. What exactly does 'moderate and reasonable' mean? : debates on discipline in Victorian public school literature -- 5. 'It's not brutality, it's boy; only boy' : public schools and adolescence at the turn of the century -- 6. The death of an ideal.