Regendering the School Story - Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys (Hardcover)

In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are excluded, although most histories of the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the gendering of school stories. When the occasional man wrote about girls schools-as Charles Lamb and H. G. Wells did-he sometimes empowered his female characters, granting them freedoms that he had experienced at school.
Women who wrote about boys' schools often gave unusual emphasis to families, and at times, revealed the contradictions in the schoolyard code against telling tales or presented competing versions of masculinity, such as the Christian gentleman versus the self-made man. Sometimes these middle-class white women projected their sense of estrangement onto working class and minority women. Sometimes they wrote school stories that were in dialog with other genres, as when Mrs. Henry Wood wrote a sensation story or, like Louisa May Alcott, they domesticated the boys school story, giving prominence to a female viewpoint.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Children's Literature and Culture
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Beverly Lyon Clark
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-2116-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	0-8153-2116-3
Barcode:	9780815321163

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