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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Newbon, Pete (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Too Much the Boy-Man
• Self-Incurred Immaturity
• Literary Origins: Sterne, Rousseau, Chatterton, and Wordsworth
• Namby-Pamby Wordsworth
• The Marks of Infancy Were Burned Into Him
• Chapter 6: Little Johnny Keats: A Boy of Pretty Abilities
• Lamb and the Age of Cant: Jokes, Puns, and Nonsense
• Hartley Coleridge and the Muscular Christians
• Pantomime and the Politics of Play
• The Dark Interpreter: De Quincey, and the Legacy of Wordsworthian Childhood
• A Farewell to Skimpole: Romantic Boy-Men and Canonical Occlusion
• Index.