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title	:	Being a Boy Again : Autobiography and the American Boy Book
author	:	Jacobson, Marcia Ann.
publisher	:	University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0817307648
print isbn13	:	9780817307646
ebook isbn13	:	9780585247168
language	:	English
subject	Autobiographical fiction, American--Men authors--History and criticism, American prose literature--Men authors--History and criticism, Boys--United States--Biography--History and criticism, Boys in literature, Autobiography.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	PS374.A88J33 1994eb
ddc	:	813/.409352054
subject	:	Autobiographical fiction, American--Men authors--History and criticism, American prose literature--Men authors--History and criticism, Boys--United States--Biography--History and criticism, Boys in literature, Autobiography.

Page i Being a Boy Again

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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

Page xi Acknowledgments I am grateful to the journals that gave my work a hearing when I was still formulating my ideas. Half of Chapter 4 and the whole of Chapter 5 first appeared in American Literary Realism and Western American Literature; they appear here in revised form. Two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars were particularly helpful to me. John Demos's "Theory and Practice in Psychohistory" directed my attention to the meaning of the boy books I was concerned with in the adult lives of their authors; James Olney's "The Forms of Autobiography" broadened my understanding of autobiography as a genre and gave me tools with which to examine the boy books. And Summer Support from NEH gave me additional time to work on this study.

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