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Boys at Home

Boys

Ken Parille

Discipline, Masculinity, and “The Boy–Problem”

in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Home

The University of Tennessee Press

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Knoxville

2009 by The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville.

First Edition.

Frontispiece:

From Jacob Abbott’s

Rollo at Play,

1841.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Parille, Ken.

Boys at home: discipline, masculinity, and “the boy-problem” in

nineteenth-century American literature / Ken Parille.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN

-13: 978-1-57233-688-9

eISBN

-10: 1-57233-688-9

1. Children’s stories, American—History and criticism.

2. Boys in literature.

3. Childhood in literature.

4. Masculinity in literature.

5. American fiction—19th century—History and criticism.

6. Boys—Education—United States—History—19th century.

7. Boys—Books and reading—United States.

I. Title.

PS374.B69P37 2009

813'.409352341— dc22

2009010595