1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458085403321

Autore

Parille Ken

Titolo

Boys at home [[electronic resource] ] : discipline, masculinity, and the boy-problem in nineteenth-century American literature / / Ken Parille

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-09841-5

9786613098412

1-57233-688-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Disciplina

813/.409352341

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Boys in literature

Boys - Books and reading - United States

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

Children in literature

Children's stories, American - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798533703321

Titolo

Italian women at war : sisters in arms from the Unification to the twentieth century / / edited by Susan Amatangelo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61147-954-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Collana

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies

Disciplina

320.082/0945

Soggetti

Women in war - Italy - History

Women and war - Italy - History

Women soldiers - Italy - History

Italy History, Military

Italy Social conditions

Italy History 19th century

Italy History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Italy's sisters in arms / Susan Amatangelo -- Part I. The unification of Italy -- One in a mille : Countess Martini Della Torre / Benedetta Gennaro -- Peppa La Cannoniera : citizenship in action / Giovanna Summerfield -- "Sono briganta, io, non donna di brigante" : the female brigand's search for identity / Susan Amatangelo -- Part II. The two world wars -- Women at war : Eva Kühn Amendola (Magamal) : interventionist, futurist, fascist / Lucia Re -- "We will build a better world together" : female partisans' memories of their resistance to



fascism (1943-1945) / Fiona M. Stewart -- Where women meet resistance : Fenoglio's war narratives / Daria Valentini -- Part III. State terrorism and the Mafia -- A sister without arms : the myth of Antigone in Liliana Cavani's The cannibals / Stefania Benini -- Fighting Cosa Nostra with the camera's eye : Letizia Battaglia's evolving icons of "traumatic realism" / Norma Bouchard.

Sommario/riassunto

"Italian Women at War explores Italian women's participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern history, beginning with the Unification and ending with the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, which focus on both historical and fictional figures, help to further the discussion on women's participation in violence, warfare (both conventional and unconventional), and political protest throughout Italy"--Provided by publisher.