LEADER 03720nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910812014703321 005 20230801230115.0 010 $a0-292-73893-5 024 7 $a10.7560/738928 035 $a(CKB)2670000000319463 035 $a(EBL)3443643 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12369276 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10841548 035 $a(PQKB)11286486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443643 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443643 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10629558 035 $a(OCoLC)932314308 035 $a(DE-B1597)587343 035 $a(OCoLC)1280943549 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292738935 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000319463 100 $a20120509d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAll-American boy$b[electronic resource] /$fby Larzer Ziff 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (157 p.) 225 1 $aDiscovering America ;$v4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-73892-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Introduction""; ""1. The New Nation: Young Washington, Rollo""; ""2. All-Americans: Tom Bailey, Tom Sawyer""; ""3. City Life: Ragged Dick, Peck's Bad Boy, Little Lord Fauntleroy""; ""4. America as Middle Class: Adolescence, Frank Merriwell, Penrod""; ""5. Antitheses: Huckleberry Finn, Holden Caulfield""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" 330 $aFrom his celebrated appearance, hatchet in hand, in Parson Mason Locke Weems?s Life of Washington to Booth Tarkington?s Penrod, the all-American boy was an iconic figure in American literature for well over a century. Sometimes he was a ?good boy,? whose dutiful behavior was intended as a model for real boys to emulate. Other times, he was a ?bad boy,? whose mischievous escapades could be excused either as youthful exuberance that foreshadowed adult industriousness or as deserved attacks on undemocratic pomp and pretension. But whether good or bad, the all-American boy was a product of the historical moment in which he made his appearance in print, and to trace his evolution over time is to take a fresh view of America?s cultural history, which is precisely what Larzer Ziff accomplishes in All-American Boy. Ziff looks at eight classic examples of the all-American boy?young Washington, Rollo, Tom Bailey, Tom Sawyer, Ragged Dick, Peck?s ?bad boy,? Little Lord Fauntleroy, and Penrod?as well as two notable antitheses?Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield. Setting each boy in a rich cultural context, Ziff reveals how the all-American boy represented a response to his times, ranging from the newly independent nation?s need for models of democratic citizenship, to the tales of rags-to-riches beloved during a century of accelerating economic competition, to the recognition of adolescence as a distinct phase of life, which created a stage on which the white, middle-class ?solid citizen? boy and the alienated youth both played their parts. 410 0$aDiscovering America series ;$v4. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBoys in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBoys in literature. 676 $a813/.009352341 700 $aZiff$b Larzer$f1927-$0684170 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812014703321 996 $aAll-American boy$93923335 997 $aUNINA