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Being a Boy Again : Autobiography and the title: American Boy Book author: Jacobson, Marcia Ann. publisher: University of Alabama Press isbn10 | asin: 0817307648 print isbn13: 9780817307646 ebook isbn13: 9780585247168 language: English Autobiographical fiction, American--Men authors--History and criticism, American prose literature--Men authors--History and subject criticism, Boys--United States--Biography-- History and criticism, Boys in literature, Autobiography. publication date: 1994 lcc: PS374.A88J33 1994eb ddc: 813/.409352054 Autobiographical fiction, American--Men authors--History and criticism, American prose literature--Men authors--History and subject: criticism, Boys--United States--Biography-- History and criticism, Boys in literature, Autobiography. Page i Being a Boy Again Page ii Page iii Being a Boy Again Autobiography and the American Boy Book Marcia Jacobson Page iv Copyright © 1994 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science- Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48- 1984. The illustration used as a frontispiece is "Wating for a Bite," by Winslow Homer, published in Harper's Weekly, 22 August 1874. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jacobson, Marcia Ann. Being a boy again : autobiography and the American boy book / Marcia Johnson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8173-0764-8 (alk. paper) 1. Autobiographical fiction, AmericanMen authorsHistory and criticism. 2. American prose literatureMen authorsHistory and criticism. 3. BoysUnited StatesBiographyHistory and criticism. 4. Boys in literature. 5. Autobiography. I. Title. PS374.A88J33 1994 813'.409352054dc20 94-14510 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available Page v To Steve and Nate Page vii One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that it does not last long enough; it is soon over; just as you get used to being a boy, you have to be something else, with a good deal more work to do and not half so much fun. And yet every boy is anxious to be a man. Charles Dudley Warner, Being a Boy A man, if he is any good, never gets over being a boy. Sherwood Anderson, Tar: A Midwest Childhood Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi 1. The Boy Book 1 The Historical Context 1 Fiction and Autobiography 16 2. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Charles Dudley Warner 25 3. Mark Twain 44 4. William Dean Howells 71 5. Hamlin Garland 98 6. Stephen Crane 116 7. Booth Tarkington 133 8. The End of the Boy Book 151 Notes 161 Works Cited 173 Index 185
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