In this Book
- Boys at Home: Discipline, Masculinity, and "The Boy-Problem" in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: The University of Tennessee Press
summary
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, sympathy, shame, and reading.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction: Literary Critics and “The Boy”
- pp. xi-xxviii
- Works Cited
- pp. 121-138
Additional Information
ISBN
9781572336889
Related ISBN(s)
9781572337879
MARC Record
OCLC
699513588
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2012-11-02
Language
English
Open Access
No