{"product_id":"being-a-boy-again-marcia-jacobson-9780817307646","title":"Being a Boy Again: Autobiography and the American Boy Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIdentifies a literary genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War I--the American boy book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jacobson distinguishes the boy book tradition from the didactic story for boys and the developmental autobiography of childhood, describing it as an autobiographical form that concentrates on boyhood alone. She discusses what gave rise to the boy book, what forms it took, what problems it addressed, and finally, why it disappeared. \u003cp\u003e Jacobson finds her answers in the widespread social and economic changes of the second half of the 19th century, as well as in the personal crisis that inspired each of the boy books. She argues that key works by such writers as Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Booth Tarkington marked a nostalgic retreat to being a boy again in the face of the difficulties of being a man in 19th-century America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcia Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817307648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817307646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.84h x 5.77w x 0.80d","brand":"Marcia Jacobson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44790020604159,"sku":"9780817307646","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_104e42a5-e8b7-4863-9495-596eeefd0526.jpg?v=1707287726","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/being-a-boy-again-marcia-jacobson-9780817307646","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}