The Boy-Man, Masculinity and Immaturity in the Long Nineteenth Century

• Main Author: Newbon, Pete (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Subjects: Social history.; Great Britain-History.; Civilization-History.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Literature-History and criticism.; Social History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Cultural History.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Literary History.

This book explores the evolution of male writers marked by peculiar traits of childlike immaturity. The 'Boy-Man' emerged from the nexus of Rousseau's counter-Enlightenment cultural primitivism, Sensibility's 'Man of Feeling', the Chattertonian poet maudit, and the Roma...