Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; 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; Bibliography; Index.