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" The boy-man, creativity and masculinity in the long nineteenth century / "
Peter Newbon.
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BL
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Record Number
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840832
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Main Entry
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Newbon, Pete
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Title & Author
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The boy-man, creativity and masculinity in the long nineteenth century /\ Peter Newbon.
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Publication Statement
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London :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2019
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Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
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1 online resource.
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ISBN
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1137408138
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: 1137408146
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: 9781137408136
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: 9781137408143
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1137408138
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9781137408136
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Abstract
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This book traces the evolution of a distinct type of man of letters, defined by his immaturity and childlikeness: the boy-man. Pete Newbon argues that such a literary figure emerged at the confluence of the idealisation of childhood with a crisis of masculinity in the early nineteenth century. This study narrates the genealogy of the boy-man. The boy-man derives from a nexus of discourses in the mid-eighteenth century: cultural primitivism, the culture of sensibility, and the cult of premature genius. Boy-men proliferated with an unprecedented concentration and dynamism in the Romantic period. Yet in the late nineteenth century, boy-men were increasingly estranged from the public-sphere and literary canon.
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Literature, Modern-- 19th century.
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Male authors-- 19th century-- Psychology.
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Masculinity.
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Age groups.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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British Irish history.
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Literature, Modern.
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Literature: history criticism.
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Male authors-- Psychology.
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Masculinity.
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Social cultural history.
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Dewey Classification
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809/.034
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LC Classification
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PN761
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