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Author:

Parille, Ken.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxvii, 153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Boys in literature.
Children in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Boys--History--United States--History--19th century.
Boys--Books and reading--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1572336773 (acid-free paper)
9781572336773 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317383421

LCCN:

2009010595

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)