Looking at privileged boys in school as well as those of the laboring class, criminal boys who ended up in prison, and apprentices in the printing press whose labor helped them achieve respectable manhood, this book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable—valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth. As such, boys were all, one way or another, made useful, and their stories run the gamut from trivial to tragic.
Looking at privileged boys in school as well as those of the laboring class, criminal boys who ended up in prison, and apprentices in the printing press whose labor helped them achieve respectable manhood, this book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable—valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth. As such, boys were all, one way or another, made useful, and their stories run the gamut from trivial to tragic. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Chantel Lavoie is a full professor in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her first monograph was Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700–1770 (2009). She has also published two collections of verse: Where the Terror Lies (2012) and This Is about Angels, Women, and Men (2021), and her first historical novel, about chimney sweeps in the eighteenth century, is forthcoming. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Time for Boys 1 The Boy in Breeches: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) Growing into Gender 2 The Boy in School: Ellenor Fenn’s Rhetorical Tools in School Dialogues, for Boys (1783) 3 The Boy in the Machine: Pierre Jaquet-Droz’s Automaton, the Writer (1774) 4 The Boy in the Chimney: Sweeps’ Apprentices, Suffering Bodies, and Jonathan Swift 5 The Boy in the Gallows: Crime, Punishment, Broadsheets, Afterlives 6 The Boy in the Printing Press: Printer’s Devils and Upward Mobility Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Time for Boys 1 The Boy in Breeches: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) Growing into Gender 2 The Boy in School: Ellenor Fenn’s Rhetorical Tools in School Dialogues, for Boys (1783) 3 The Boy in the Machine: Pierre Jaquet-Droz’s Automaton, the Writer (1774) 4 The Boy in the Chimney: Sweeps’ Apprentices, Suffering Bodies, and Jonathan Swift 5 The Boy in the Gallows: Crime, Punishment, Broadsheets, Afterlives 6 The Boy in the Printing Press: Printer’s Devils and Upward Mobility Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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