{"product_id":"serialized-citizenships","title":"Serialized Citizenships","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the last few decades, scholars have turned their attention to constructions of masculinity and its influence on expressions of nationality and citizenship. \u003ci\u003eSerialized Citizenships\u003c\/i\u003e participates in and critiques these ongoing conversations about boyhood by examining works produced between 1840 and the first decade of the twentieth century. American boyhood has often been narrowly defined by nineteenth- and twentieth- century canonical texts, such as Mark Twain's \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, which represent boyhood as a time of rebellion against society. This book suggests that significant representations of American boyhood can be found elsewhere: in serialized texts published in middle-class magazines such as \u003ci\u003eYouth's Companion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOur Young Folks\u003c\/i\u003e, and also in less familiar children's periodicals, including \u003ci\u003eYoung American's Magazine of Self-Improvement\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBoys of New York\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Lorinda Cohoon argues that through their regular publication, these forms of productions construct citizenships that are then adapted by readers from a wide variety of backgrounds—not just by the white middle-class boy readers for whom many of the serialized representations of boyhood were originally published. Cohoon analyzes serializations of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's \u003ci\u003eStory of a Bad Boy\u003c\/i\u003e and Mark Twain's \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, along with serializations published by Jacob Abbott, William Taylor Adams, Louisa May Alcott, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Challenging the seemingly omnipresent \"bad boyhood\" that is still used to characterize American masculinity, this text examines cultural and textual evidence that reveals many other versions of boyhood citizenships that have been marginalized and sometimes ignored. The serializations and the surrounding periodical material also provide insights into texts that intervene in the construction of regional and national boyhood citizenships throughout the nineteenth century and continue to shape the ways citizenship is negotiated in the twentieth and twenty-\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scarecrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248177533272,"sku":"9780810854253","price":87.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780810854253.jpg?v=1769742031","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/serialized-citizenships","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}