Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century : : Age, Gender, and Work /

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century : : Age, Gender, and Work / / Chantel Lavoie.

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century—not simply in children’s literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadside...

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Lavoie, Chantel,
Place / Publishing House:Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2023]
©2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 5 color and 4 B-W images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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 Swif
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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