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