Navigating between Home and Empire: Mobility and Male Friendship in "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "The Three Midshipmen"

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Soyoun; Nelson, Claudia
Titel	Navigating between Home and Empire: Mobility and Male Friendship in "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "The Three Midshipmen"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 49 (2018) 3, S.323-337 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kim, Soyoun)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-017-9321-y
Schlagwörter	Friendship; Public Schools; Novels; Authors; Males; Self Concept; Developmental Stages; Boarding Schools; Military Service + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freundschaft; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Novel; Roman; Author; Autor; Autorin; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Selbstkonzept; Boarding school; Internat; Militärdienst
Abstract	In this article, we investigate the public school novel as represented by Thomas Hughes's "Tom Brown's Schooldays" (1857) and the boy's sea story as represented by W. H. G. Kingston's "The Three Midshipmen" (1873). The school novel and the sea story sometimes functioned as twinned forms enabling authors for boys to explore anxieties about male selfhood and relocating oneself in the larger community while growing up. As becomes especially apparent when they are read together, these novels address the boy's relationship to home and empire, rootlessness and rootedness. The coming-of-age plot found in the boys' books reveals a literature that embraces both rootlessness/mobility and rootedness/community and that posits an all-male version of something closely resembling domestic life as a way to navigate between the two. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01