Lorinda B. Cohoon

Serialized Citizenships

Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the last few decades, scholars have turned their attention to constructions of masculinity and its influence on expressions of nationality and citizenship. Serialized Citizenships participates in and critiques these ongoing conversations about boyhood by examining works produced between 1840 and the first decade of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780810854253
• ISBN-10: 0810854252
• Artikelnr.: 21649017

Autorenporträt

By Lorinda B. Cohoon

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 List of Illustrations Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1. Educating Boys for American Citizenship: Jacob Abbott's
Contributions to the Youth's Companion Chapter 5 2. Working-Class Boys and
Self-Improved Citizenship: George Light's Editorials in the Young
American's Magazine of Self-Improvement Chapter 6 3. Typing American
Renaissance Boys: Citizenship Compromises in Oliver Optic's The Boat Club
Chapter 7 4. Necessary Badness: Reconstructing Postbellum Boyhood
Citizenships in Our Young Folks and The Story of a Bad Boy Chapter 8 5.
"Shall I Be Your Boy?": Conversational Citizenships in the St. Nicholas
Serialization of Little Lord Fauntleroy Chapter 9 6. Beeton's Boy's Own
Magazine and Boys' Life: Serialized Directions for Boyhood Citizenships in
the Twentieth Century Part 10 Works Cited Part 11 Index Part 12 About the
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