1st Edition
Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence
By Jenny Holt
Copyright 2008
280 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate. Jenny Holt argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of fictional, biographical, and journalistic work, had a disproportionate role to play in the development of... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The crisis of youth and the public school reformation; An education for active citizenship: Tom Brown's Schooldays; 'Beastly Erikin': nature, God and the adolescent boy; What exactly does 'moderate and reasonable' mean? Debates on discipline in Victorian public school literature; 'It's not brutality ... it's boy; only boy': public schools and adolescence at the turn of the century; The death of an ideal; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jenny Holt is a lecturer in English literature at Meiji University, Japan.
’... an important addition to the literature of this genre.’ The Looking Glass ’... Holt's readings offer a welter of fresh insights into both the well-known and lesser-known texts.’ Children's Books History Society Newsletter 'Holt’s study is thoroughly researched and admirably comprehensive...' Journal of British Studies
