ISBN:
9781472510099
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (186 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Olsen, Stephanie Juvenile Nation : Youth, Emotions and the Making of the Modern British Citizen, 1880-1914
DDC:
941.081
Keywords:
Great Britain -- Politics and government
Abstract:
Half-Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Childhood, youth, adolescence -- Informal education -- Emotions, character, morality and manliness -- Fatherhood, home and family -- Nation, empire, citizenship -- 1 Stakeholders of Youth -- The juvenile publishing industry -- Temperance organizations and their publications -- Conclusion -- 2 Moral and Emotional Consensus -- Real dangers -- Boys will be men -- Defining the path -- Masturbation: A delicate touch -- Socialist messages for the young -- Conclusion -- 3 Domestic Bliss? Husband, Wife and Home -- Home politeness -- Marriage -- The moral man is the family man -- The new woman and the ideal husband and father -- Conclusion -- 4 The Child: Father to the Man? -- Teaching strategies and reception -- Teaching boys to say 'no' -- Showing the way: Boys as fathers to their fathers -- Emotional conditioning and emotional control -- 5 Recasting Imperial Masculinity: Informal Education and the Empire of Domesticity -- Imperial men -- Loose adaptations -- Murdoch's mission -- Education and political order -- Conclusion -- 6 Storm and Stress: The 'Invention' of Adolescence -- Legislation for children and parental authority -- The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children -- Adolescence and professionalization -- G.Stanley Hall and his impact on British thought -- Emotional education -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.
Abstract:
In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight. Yet by the end of 1915, the British government realized that conscription would be required. Why did so many enlist, and conversely, why so few? Focusing on analyses of widely felt emotions related to moral and domestic duty, Juvenile Nation broaches these questions in new ways. Through juvenile literature and an increasingly influential science of adolescence, Juvenile Nation explores the themes of loyalty, character, temperance, manliness, fatherhood, and religion. In the context of a widespread consensus on the ways to make men out of boys, an informal curriculum of emotional control, key to shaping the future citizenry of Britain and the Empire, is revealed. Juvenile Nation argues that the militaristic fervour of 1914 was an emotional outpouring based on association to family, to community and to Christian cultural continuity. Significantly, the same emotional response explains why so many men did not volunteer, with duty to family and community perhaps thought to have been best carried out at home. This is an important book that tells us much about the emergence of adolescence in modern Britain and the Empire
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