Public school literature, civic education and the politics of male adolescence - Holt, Jenny, 1973- (Farnham, England : Ashgate, 2008)
The crisis of youth and the public school reformation -- An education for active citizenship : Tom Brown's schooldays --'Beastly Erikin' : nature, God and the adolescent boy -- What exactly does'moderate and reasonable' mean? : debates on discipline in Victorian public school literature --'It's not brutality, it's boy; only boy' : public schools and adolescence at the turn of the century -- The death of an ideal
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index
Keywords: Children's literature, English -- History and criticism; School children in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Boys -- Books and reading -- Great Britain; Children -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century; Children -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 20th century; Education -- Great Britain -- History; Adolescence in literature; Education in literature