{"product_id":"writing-through-boyhood-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-age-gender-and-work-hardback-9781644533208","title":"Writing Through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century; Age, Gender, and Work (Hardback) 9781644533208","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWriting Through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAge, Gender, and Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChantel Lavoie (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781644533208\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 5 color and 4 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWriting through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century—not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. The chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read and write, and going to school. They also consider the lives of boys such as chimney sweeps and convicted criminals, whose bodily labor was considered their only value and who often did not live beyond boyhood. Defined by a variety of tasks, expectations, and objectifications, boys—real, imagined, and sometimes both—were subject to the control of their elders and were used as tools in the cause of civil society, commerce, and empire. This book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable—valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Time for Boys\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Boy in Breeches: Laurence Sterne's \u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (1759–1767) Growing into Gender\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Boy in School: Ellenor Fenn's Rhetorical Tools in\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSchool Dialogues, for Boys\u003c\/i\u003e (1783)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Boy in the Machine: Pierre Jaquet-Droz's Automaton, \u003cbr\u003e the Writer (1774)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Boy in the Chimney: Sweeps' Apprentices, Suffering\u003cbr\u003e Bodies, and Jonathan Swift\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Boy in the Gallows: Crime, Punishment, Broadsheets,\u003cbr\u003e Afterlives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Boy in the Printing Press: Printer's Devils and \u003cbr\u003e Upward Mobility\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633641582872,"sku":"9781644533208","price":123.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/writing-through-boyhood-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-age-gender-and-work-hardback-9781644533208","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}