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



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Autore: Parille Ken Visualizza persona
Titolo: Boys at home : discipline, masculinity, and the boy-problem in nineteenth-century American literature / / Ken Parille Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.409352341
Soggetto topico: 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
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
Titolo autorizzato: Boys at home  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-09841-5
9786613098412
1-57233-688-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818460303321
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