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Boys at home
| Subtitle | discipline, masculinity, and “the boy-problem” in nineteenth-century American literature |
| Publish Place | Knoxville |
| Publisher | University of Tennessee Press |
| Publish Year | 2009 |
| Pages | XXVII, 153p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 1572336773 |
| Illustration | ill. |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 2009
| Description | In this book the author seeks to show how the complexities of the fiction and educational materials written about them reflect the lives they lived. He explores a broader archive of writings by male and female authors, extending from 1830-1885. The book offers arguments about five pedagogical modes: play-adventure, corporal punishment, sympathy, shame, and reading. The first chapter demonstrates that scenes of play in boys’ novels reproduce values associated with the home. Chapter 2 argues that debates about corporal punishment are crucial sources for the culture’s ideas about gender difference and pedagogical practice. Chapter 3 examines the affective nature of mother-daughter and mother-son bonds, emphasizing the special difficulties that “boy-nature” posed for women. The fourth chapter uses boys’ conduct literature and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women to investigate not only Alcott’s fictional representations of shame-centered discipline but also pervasive cultural narratives about what it means to “be a man.” The final chapter considers arguments about the effects that fictional, historical, and biographical narratives had on a boy’s sense of himself and his masculinity. |
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