Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

by JennyHolt (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $151.56

  Argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of fictional, biographical, and journalistic work, had a role to play in the development of social perceptions of adolescence and in forming ideas of how young people should be educated to become citizens in an age of increasing democracy.