Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century - Chantel Lavoie

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century

Age, Gender, and Work

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2024
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-64453-319-2 (ISBN)
56,75 inkl. MwSt
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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 broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. The chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read and write, and going to school. They also consider the lives of boys such as chimney sweeps and convicted criminals, whose bodily labor was considered their only value and who often did not live beyond boyhood. Defined by a variety of tasks, expectations, and objectifications, boys—real, imagined, and sometimes both—were subject to the control of their elders and were used as tools in the cause of civil society, commerce, and empire. This book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable—valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth. 

Chantel Lavoie is a full professor in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her first monograph was Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700–1770 (2009). She has also published two collections of verse: Where the Terror Lies (2012) and This Is about Angels, Women, and Men (2021), and her first historical novel, about chimney sweeps in the eighteenth century, is forthcoming. She lives in Kingston, Ontario. 

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 Swift


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

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 5 color and 4 B-W images
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-64453-319-7 / 1644533197
ISBN-13 978-1-64453-319-2 / 9781644533192
Zustand Neuware
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