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Serialized Citizenships - Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911 (Paperback)
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Serialized Citizenships - Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911 (Paperback)
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In the last few decades, scholars have turned their attention to
constructions of masculinity and its influence on expressions of
nationality and citizenship. Serialized Citizenships participates
in and critiques these ongoing conversations about boyhood by
examining works produced between 1840 and the first decade of the
twentieth century. American boyhood has often been narrowly defined
by nineteenth- and twentieth- century canonical texts, such as Mark
Twain's Huckleberry Finn, which represent boyhood as a time of
rebellion against society. This book suggests that significant
representations of American boyhood can be found elsewhere: in
serialized texts published in middle-class magazines such as
Youth's Companion and Our Young Folks, and also in less familiar
children's periodicals, including Young American's Magazine of
Self-Improvement and Boys of New York. Author Lorinda Cohoon argues
that through their regular publication, these forms of productions
construct citizenships that are then adapted by readers from a wide
variety of backgrounds-not just by the white middle-class boy
readers for whom many of the serialized representations of boyhood
were originally published. Cohoon analyzes serializations of Thomas
Bailey Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy and Mark Twain's Huckleberry
Finn, along with serializations published by Jacob Abbott, William
Taylor Adams, Louisa May Alcott, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Challenging the seemingly omnipresent "bad boyhood" that is still
used to characterize American masculinity, this text examines
cultural and textual evidence that reveals many other versions of
boyhood citizenships that have been marginalized and sometimes
ignored. The serializations and the surrounding periodical material
also provide insights into texts that intervene in the construction
of regional and national boyhood citizenships throughout the
nineteenth century and continue to shape the ways citizenship is
negotiated in the twentieth and twenty-
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