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Author:

Holt, Jenny, 1973-

Title:

Public school literature, civic education and the politics of male adolescence / Jenny Holt.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

270 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
School children in literature
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Boys--Books and reading--Great Britain.
Children--History--England--History--19th century.
Children--History--England--History--20th century.
Education--Great Britain--History.
Adolescence in literature
Education in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index.

Contents:

The crisis of youth and the public school reformation -- An education for active citizenship : Tom Brown's schooldays -- 'Beastly Erikin' : nature, God and the adolescent boy -- What exactly does 'moderate and reasonable' mean? : debates on discipline in Victorian public school literature -- 'It's not brutality, it's boy; only boy' : public schools and adolescence at the turn of the century -- The death of an ideal.

Series:

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present

ISBN:

0754656624 (alk. paper)
9780754656623 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)225852487

LCCN:

2008017878

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)