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Revisits narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another - and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress.

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Martin Woodside deftly interprets constructions of region, gender, race, and class, and draws on thinkers from Herbert Spencer to Frederick Jackson Turner, and from G. Stanley Hall to Kenneth and Mamie Clark, to show how the West, real and imagined, shaped juvenile literature, performance, and play, and how youth shaped notions about the West's meaning."" - James Marten, author of Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Frontiers of Boyhood Imagining America Past and

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 2/28/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780806164762, 978-0806164762
      ISBN10: 080616476X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Revisits narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another - and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress.

      Trade Review
      Martin Woodside deftly interprets constructions of region, gender, race, and class, and draws on thinkers from Herbert Spencer to Frederick Jackson Turner, and from G. Stanley Hall to Kenneth and Mamie Clark, to show how the West, real and imagined, shaped juvenile literature, performance, and play, and how youth shaped notions about the West's meaning."" - James Marten, author of Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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