Author: Standish Burt L
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781318848188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Larzer Ziff
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0292745826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From his celebrated appearance, hatchet in hand, in Parson Mason Locke Weems’s Life of Washington to Booth Tarkington’s Penrod, the all-American boy was an iconic figure in American literature for well over a century. Sometimes he was a “good boy,” whose dutiful behavior was intended as a model for real boys to emulate. Other times, he was a “bad boy,” whose mischievous escapades could be excused either as youthful exuberance that foreshadowed adult industriousness or as deserved attacks on undemocratic pomp and pretension. But whether good or bad, the all-American boy was a product of the historical moment in which he made his appearance in print, and to trace his evolution over time is to take a fresh view of America’s cultural history, which is precisely what Larzer Ziff accomplishes in All-American Boy. Ziff looks at eight classic examples of the all-American boy—young Washington, Rollo, Tom Bailey, Tom Sawyer, Ragged Dick, Peck’s “bad boy,” Little Lord Fauntleroy, and Penrod—as well as two notable antitheses—Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield. Setting each boy in a rich cultural context, Ziff reveals how the all-American boy represented a response to his times, ranging from the newly independent nation’s need for models of democratic citizenship, to the tales of rags-to-riches beloved during a century of accelerating economic competition, to the recognition of adolescence as a distinct phase of life, which created a stage on which the white, middle-class “solid citizen” boy and the alienated youth both played their parts.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 1642
ISBN-13:
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Published: 2016-01-18
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781523469611
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-24
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3368916572
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-28
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 3368919415
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