Boys at home
Subtitle: discipline, masculinity, and "the boy-problem" in nineteenth-century American literature
By: Ken Parille.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781572336773
Subjects: Children's stories, American -- History and criticism; Boys in literature; Childhood in literature; Masculinity in literature; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Boys -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Boys -- Books and reading -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary critics and "the boy"; title: Work and play, pleasure and pedagogy in nineteenth-century boys' novels; title: "Desirable and necessary" in "families and schools" : boy-nature and physical discipline; title: "The medicine of sympathy" : mothers, sons, and affective pedagogy in antebellum America; title: "Wake up, and be a man" : Little women, shame, and the ethic of submission; title: "What our boys are reading" : Lydia Sigourney, Francis Forrester, and boyhood literacy; title: Coda : "real boys" of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : educators, academics, and sociologists on boyhood.