Writing through boyhood in the long eighteenth century : age, gender, and work /
"Writing through Boyhood explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected lived experience through the long eighteenth century-not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. These ch...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Writing through Boyhood explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected lived experience through the long eighteenth century-not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. These chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read and write, and going to school. They also consider the lives of boys whose bodily labor was their only value, and who often did not live beyond boyhood: chimney sweeps and convicted criminals. Defined by a variety of tasks, expectations, and objectifications, boys-real, imagined, and sometimes both-were subject to the control of their elders, and used as tools in the cause of civil society, commerce, and empire"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 229 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781644533192 1644533197 9781644533208 1644533200 |