Boys at Home: Discipline, Masculinity, and "The Boy-Problem" in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Index Abbott, Jacob, xii, xviii, xxvii, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 107n9; book by, quoted, 115n23; novels of, xxiii, 8, 105n13, 106n15 Abbott, John S. C.: book by, quoted, 54 Adams, William T. See Optic, Oliver “Address of T. W. Higginson”: quoted, 94 Adolescence (book by G. Stanley Hall), 99 “Advantages of Discerning Peculiarities of Character in Pupils, and of Adapting Oneself to Them” (article by Jacob Abbott): quoted, 27, 108nn15–16 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel by Mark Twain) 2, 13, 14, 15, 75, 77; quoted, 116n32 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (novel by Mark Twain), xxi, xxiv, xxvii, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, 17, 75, 79, 92, 101, 102, 105n8, 106n16, 108n14; introduction to (by Henry Nash Smith), 14; quoted, 11, 74 Advice to Young Men on Their Duties and Conduct in Life (book by T. S. Arthur): quoted, 65, 83 “Against Boys” (essay): quoted, xix, 24, 109n19 Alcott, Bronson, xiv, xvii, 8, 19, 20, 22, 31, 35, 36, 39, 40, 107n9; quoted, 33 Alcott, Louisa May, xii, xiii, xvii, xxiii, xxv, 8, 10, 13, 15, 61, 64, 66, 69, 75, 94, 95, 100, 102, 110n29; books by, quoted, 90, 92, 93, 94; portion of letter of, quoted, 114n16 Alcott, William, 82, 92; book by, 5, quoted, 92, 93, 94, 118n17 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, xiv, xv, xxvii, 8: book by, quoted, 74, 79 Alexander the Great, 87, 88, 89, 90 Alger, Horatio, xi, 12, 14, 89, 91; essay by, quoted, 119n24 Aliaga-Buchenau, Ana-Isabel, 80, 117n4; book by, quoted, 93 All about the Girls: Culture, Power, and Identity, 120n2 American Child, The (collection by Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley), 104n3 American Children’s Literature and the Construction of Childhood (book by Gail Schmunk Murray): quoted, 108n14 American Literature since 1870 (book by Fred Pattee), 13 American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (book by E. Anthony Rotundo): cited, 10, 24, 49, 50; quoted, 65, 67, 70, 73 American Sympathy (study by Caleb Crain), 104n7 Amos Bronson Alcott: An Intellectual Biography (book by Frederick C. Dahlstrand), 109n23 Ancient History (book by Charles Rollin), 89, 90 Arac, Jonathan, 14; book by, quoted, 2 Arthur, T. S.: book by, quoted, 65, 83 140 Index “‘As the Twig Is Bent . . . ’: Gender and Childhood Reading” (essay by Elizabeth Segel): cited, 117n2 At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (book by Carl N. Degler): cited, 36 Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America’s Classic Children’s Books (book by Jerry Griswold): cited, 104n6 Auerbach, Nina, 62; 112n4; book by, quoted, xix Aunt Chloe (fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin), 57 Aurelius, Marcus, xii, 87 Autobiography, An: In Three Parts: quoted, 24 Avery, Gillian: book by, quoted, 10 “Bad Boy in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, The” (article by Anne Trensky): cited, 115n24 Bailey, Tom (fictional character in Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s The Story of a Bad Boy), 74, 79 Bancroft, George, 84 Bangs, Tommy (fictional character in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men), 115n24 Barclay, Charles (fictional character in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Home), 37, 39 Barclay, Haddy (fictional character in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Home), 37, 39 Barclay, Wallace (fictional character in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Home), 24, 37, 38, 39, 53 Barker, Tim (fictional character in Walt Whitman’s “Death in the SchoolRoom ”), 30 Barnard, Charles: serial by, quoted, 92 Barnes, Elizabeth: book by, cited, 47; quoted, 52 Baym, Nina, xviii “Be Patient” (article by Halsey M. Wood): quoted, 24 Beecher, Catharine: book by, quoted, 54 Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books (book by Gillian Avery): quoted, 10 Being a Boy (book by Charles Dudley Warner): quoted, xvi Being a Boy Again (study by Marcia Jacobson): quoted, xv, 103n2 “Benefit of Hard Knocks” (article): quoted, 38, 39 Bennett, Paula: article by, quoted, 47 Bess (fictional character in Louisa May Alcott’s Jo’s Boys), 108n12 Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (book by Rita Felski): quoted, xx Bhaer, Mr. (fictional character in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men), 69, 73, 110n29 Bird, Mrs. (fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin), 57, 58 Bird, Senator (fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin), 56 Boat Club, The (book by Oliver Optic), 6 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 85, 86, 87, 88 Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835...