Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 write by K. Boyd. This book was released on 2002-11-04. Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form shaped ideas about gender, race, class and empire in response to social change. This study is an important analysis of a neglected part of popular culture.
Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939
Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939 write by H. A Fairlie. This book was released on 2014-02-09. Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role in the development of children's literature.
Being boys
Being boys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being boys write by Melanie Tebbutt. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Being boys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being Boys challenges many stereotypes about their behaviour. It offers new perspectives on familiar and important themes in interwar social and cultural history, ranging from the cinema and mass consumption to boys’ clubs, personal advice pages, street cultures, dancing, sexuality, mobility and the body. It draws on many autobiographies and personal accounts and is particularly distinctive in offering an unusual insight into working-class adolescence through the teenage diaries of the author’s father, which are interwoven with the book’s broader analysis of contemporary leisure developments. Being Boys will be of interest to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences and is also relevant to those teaching and studying in the fields of child development, education, and youth and community studies.
Juvenile Nation
Juvenile Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Juvenile Nation write by Stephanie Olsen. This book was released on 2014-01-16. Juvenile Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight. Yet by the end of 1915, the British government realized that conscription would be required. Why did so many enlist, and conversely, why so few? Focusing on analyses of widely felt emotions related to moral and domestic duty, Juvenile Nation broaches these questions in new ways. Juvenile Nation examines how religious and secular youth groups, the juvenile periodical press, and a burgeoning new group of child psychologists, social workers and other 'experts' affected society's perception of a new problem character, the 'adolescent'. By what means should this character be turned into a 'fit' citizen? Considering qualities such as loyalty, character, temperance, manliness, fatherhood, and piety, Stephanie Olsen discusses the idea of an 'informal education', focused on building character through emotional control, and how this education was seen as key to shaping the future citizenry of Britain and the Empire. Juvenile Nation recasts the militarism of the 1880s onwards as part of an emotional outpouring based on association to family, to community and to Christian cultural continuity. Significantly, the same emotional responses explain why so many men turned away from active militarism, with duty to family and community perhaps thought to have been best carried out at home. By linking the historical study of the emotions with an examination of the individual's place in society, Olsen provides an important new insight on how a generation of young men was formed.
Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War
Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War write by Linsey Robb. This book was released on 2017-11-04. Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways British men experienced, understood and remembered their exploits during the Second World War, as active combatants, prisoners and as civilian workers. It examines male identities, roles and representations in the armed forces, with particular focus on the RAF, army, volunteers for dangerous duties and prisoners of war, and on the home front, with case studies of reserved occupations and Bletchley Park, and examines the ways such roles have been remembered in post-war years in memoirs, film and memorials. As such this analysis of previously underexplored male experiences makes a major contribution to the historiography of Britain in the Second World War, as well as to socio-cultural history, cultural studies and gender studies.
