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100	1		_aParille, Ken.
245	1	0	_aBoys at Home : _bDiscipline, Masculinity, and the Boy-Problem in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
264		1	_aKnoxville : _bUniversity of Tennessee Press, _c2009.
264		4	_c©2009.
300			_a1 online resource (183 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literary Critics and "The Boy" -- Chapter 1. Work and Play, Pleasure and Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century Boys' Novels -- Chapter 2. "Desirable and Necessary" in "Families and Schools": Boy-Nature and Physical Discipline -- Chapter 3. "The Medicine of Sympathy": Mothers, Sons, and Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America -- Chapter 4. "Wake Up, and Be a Man": Little Women, Shame, and the Ethic of Submission -- Chapter 5. "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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Illustrations -- From Jacob Abbott's Rollo at Work, 1850 -- From Jacob Abbott's Rollo at Work, 1850 -- From Jacob Abbott's Rollo's Philosophy: Water, 1842 -- From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Part Two, 1869 -- From Francis Forrester's Dick Duncan, 1860.
520			_aIn this groundbreaking book, Ken Parille seeks to do for nineteenth-century boys what the past three decades of scholarship have done for girls: show how the complexities of the fiction and educational materials written about them reflect the lives they lived. While most studies of nineteenth-century boyhood have focused on post-Civil War male novelists, Parille explores a broader archive of writings by male and female authors, extending from 1830-1885. Boys at Home offers a series of arguments about five pedagogical modes: play-adventure, corporal punishment, sympathy, shame, and reading. The first chapter demonstrates that, rather than encouraging boys to escape the bonds of domesticity, 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. In chapter 3, "The Medicine of Sympathy," Parille 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 - the preeminent chronicle of girlhood in the century - 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." Focusing on works by Lydia Sigourney and Francis Forrester, 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. Boys at Home is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies. In addition, this provocative volume brings new insight to the study of childhood, women's writing, and American culture. Ken Parille is
520	8		_aassistant professor of English at East Carolina University. His articles have appeared in Children's Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Papers on Language and Literature, and Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aBoys -- Books and reading -- United States.
650		0	_aBoys -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
650		0	_aBoys in literature.
650		0	_aChildren in literature.
650		0	_aChildren's stories, American -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aMasculinity in literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aParille, Ken _tBoys at Home : Discipline, Masculinity, and the Boy-Problem in Nineteenth-Century American Literature _dKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press,c2009 _z9781572336773
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