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

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [121]-138) and index.
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LCCN 2009010595
ISBN9781572336773 (acid-free paper)
ISBN1572336773 (acid-free paper)