Boys at home : discipline, masculinity, and "the boy-problem" in nineteenth-century American literature /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
©2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=353451 |
Table of 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.