| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910818460303321 |
|
|
Autore |
Parille Ken |
|
|
Titolo |
Boys at home : 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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |