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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parille, Ken
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Boys > Books and reading > United States.
Boys > Education > United States > History > 19th century.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Children in literature.
Boys in literature.
Children's stories, American > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.