03661nam 2200781Ia 450 991079165320332120230721012633.01-283-09841-597866130984121-57233-688-9(CKB)2560000000054775(EBL)668933(OCoLC)699513588(SSID)ssj0000467371(PQKBManifestationID)11320022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467371(PQKBWorkID)10490062(PQKB)10648773(SSID)ssj0000776996(PQKBManifestationID)12267230(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000776996(PQKBWorkID)10746856(PQKB)11481246(MiAaPQ)EBC668933(MdBmJHUP)muse18433(Au-PeEL)EBL668933(CaPaEBR)ebr10437928(CaONFJC)MIL309841(EXLCZ)99256000000005477520090320d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBoys at home[electronic resource] discipline, masculinity, and the boy-problem in nineteenth-century American literature /Ken Parille1st ed.Knoxville University of Tennessee Pressc20091 online resource (183 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57233-787-7 1-57233-677-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, sympAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismBoys in literatureBoysBooks and readingUnited StatesBoysEducationUnited StatesHistory19th centuryChildren in literatureChildren's stories, AmericanHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Boys in literature.BoysBooks and readingBoysEducationHistoryChildren in literature.Children's stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.813/.409352341Parille Ken1513542MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791653203321Boys at home3748104UNINA