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Title
The Boy-Man, Masculinity and Immaturity in the Long Nineteenth Century / by Pete Newbon.
ISBN
9781137408143
1137408146
9781137408136 (print)
1137408138
9781349681174 (print)
1349681172
9781349681167 (print)
1349681164
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XV, 357 pages) : online resource
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-40814-3 doi
Call Number
HN8-HN19
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.09
Summary
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 Romantic idealisation of childhood. The Romantic era saw the proliferation of boy-men, who congregated around such metropolitan institutions as The London Magazine. These included John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Hartley Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Thomas Hood. In the period of the French Revolution, terms of childishness were used against such writers as Wordsworth, Keats, Hunt and Lamb as a tool of political satire. Yet boy-men writers conversely used their amphibian child-adult literary personae to critique the masculinist ideologies of their era. However, the growing cultural and political conservatism of the nineteenth century, and the emergence of a canon of serious literature, inculcated the relegation of the boy-men from the republic of letters.
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Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.
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Print version: 9781137408136
Print version: 9781349681174
Print version: 9781349681167
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.
