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Lorinda B. Cohoon - Serialized Citizenships - 9780810854253 - V9780810854253
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Serialized Citizenships

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Description for Serialized Citizenships Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 222 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSY. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
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-

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810854253
SKU
V9780810854253
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About Lorinda B. Cohoon
Lorinda B. Cohoon is Assistant Professor of English at The University of Memphis.

Reviews for Serialized Citizenships
...I consider Serialized Citizenships one of the more valuable texts published on children's literature and childhood studies in recent years, especially for the many ways it helps us to see that boyhood is a far less stable category of cultural understanding and critical analysis than we might have believed....Serialized Citizenships brings much needed attention to the distinctive nature of the boy as a child, fiction, and citizen.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 4
In this study, Cohoon examines representations of American boyhood found in children's periodicals and middle-class magazines produced between 1840 and the first decade of the 20th century. Particular attention is paid to constructions of masculinity, nationality, and citizenship. Some of the texts analyzed include serialized stories by such well-known authors as Mark Twain and Louisa May Alcott, as well as less-familiar periodicals like Boys of New York. Cohoon teaches courses in children's literature at the U. of Memphis. The text is based upon her doctoral dissertation.
Reference and Research Book News, August 2006

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