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

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

Author/creator	Parille, Ken
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2009.
Description	xxvii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Children's stories, American--History and criticism. Boys in literature. Children 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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-138) and index.
LCCN	2009010595
ISBN	9781572336773 (acid-free paper)
ISBN	1572336773 (acid-free paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS374.B69 P37 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold