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100 1 Jacobson, Marcia Ann.
245 10 Being a boy again :|bautobiography and the American boy
book /|cMarcia Jacobson.
264 1 Tuscaloosa :|bUniversity of Alabama Press,|c[1994]
264 4 |c©1994
300 1 online resource (188 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and
index.
505 0 The boy book : the historical context, fiction and
autobiography -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Charles Dudley
Warner -- Mark Twain -- William Dean Howells -- Hamlin
Garland -- Stephen Crane -- Booth Tarkington -- The end of
the boy book.
506 |3Use copy|fRestrictions unspecified|2star|5MiAaHDL
520 Marcia Jacobson's Being a Boy Again identifies a literary
genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War
I - the American boy book. Jacobson distinguishes the boy
book tradition from the didactic story for boys and the
developmental autobiography of childhood, describing it as
an autobiographical form that concentrates on boyhood
alone. She discusses what gave rise to the boy book, what
forms it took, what problems it addressed, and finally,
why it disappeared.
520 8 Jacobson finds her answers in the widespread social and
economic changes of the second half of the 19th century,
as well as in the personal crisis that inspired each of
the boy books. She argues that key works by such writers
as Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain,
Stephen Crane, and Booth Tarkington marked a nostalgic
retreat to being a boy again in the face of the
difficulties of being a man in 19th-century America. The
interplay between the narrating male adult in these books
and the child he once was results in wonderfully
innovative books - all of which have at their core the
narrator's confrontation with his father, the person who
should have taught him how to be a man and who inevitably
is found wanting.
520 8 Jacobson concludes her study by looking briefly at the
social and intellectual changes that brought the genre to
its end. She also suggests that in its rich variety of
form and texture, the boy book should be recognized as a
precursor of the imaginative autobiography we associate
with 20th-century writers.
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588 0 Print version record.
650 0 Autobiographical fiction, American|xMale authors|xHistory
and criticism.
650 0 American prose literature|xMale authors|xHistory and
criticism.
650 0 Boys|zUnited States|xBiography|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 Boys in literature.
650 0 Autobiography.
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM|xAmerican|xGeneral.|2bisacsh
650 17 Jongensboeken.|2gtt
650 17 Autobiografieën.|2gtt
650 17 Amerikaans.|2gtt
653 00 English fiction
653 00 United States
776 08 |iPrint version:|aJacobson, Marcia Ann.|tBeing a boy
again.|dTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994
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