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- Book Title
- The Modern Age
- Publication Name
- Modern Age : Turn-Of-The-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence
- Title
- The Modern Age
- Subtitle
- Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolesc
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780817356989
- ISBN
- 9780817356989
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Release Date
- 30/12/2011
- Release Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
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Examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired by broader cultural anxieties that characterised American society in early-twentieth-century America.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
0817356983
ISBN-13
9780817356989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109244104
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Modern Age : Turn-Of-The-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq796.B3434 2008
Edition Number
2
Reviews
"Building on Joseph Kett's idea that adolescence is more than a physical stage of life--that it was, indeed, a purposeful social and cultural 'invention'--Baxter brings depth and concreteness to the issue. . . . The protagonists and texts of this drama will be familiar to historians, but Baxter is a skillful reader and his judicious, revealing interpretations will stimulate those interested in the treatment of adolescence as ideology. Recommended." -- CHOICE, "This nicely conceptualized, lucidly argued work contextualizes popular U.S. young adult literature around the turn of the twentieth century, positioning it within a mostly imagined societal crisis about adolescence and modernization. . . . Baxter provides us with a very important interdisciplinary study, one that demands the attention of scholars of children's literature. By arguing that turn-of-the-century juvenile literature, for all its bifurcation between images of ideal and savage youths, was more realistic than generally believed, Modern Age persuades that we should take it seriously." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly, "This is a rousing and medicinal book, brilliantly conceived and argued with rare sensitivity and an eye toward what we always suspected: that there was something both necessary and deeply wrong about 'the adolescent.' Kent Baxter shows how we created this 'adolescent,' a strange construction made necessary by a confluence of cultural needs and a general turn-of-the-twentieth-century hysteria. We still all live with this energized monster, the teenager, who so often plays out the script handed to him or her: tempestuous, rebellious, a walking Id. Baxter has enormous gifts as a theorist and a writer."--James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English at the University of Southern California, "Building on Joseph Kett's idea that adolescence is more than a physical stage of life-that it was, indeed, a purposeful social and cultural 'invention'-Baxter brings depth and concreteness to the issue. . . . The protagonists and texts of this drama will be familiar to historians, but Baxter is a skillful reader and his judicious, revealing interpretations will stimulate those interested in the treatment of adolescence as ideology. Recommended." - CHOICE, "This nicely conceptualized, lucidly argued work contextualizes popular U.S. young adult literature around the turn of the twentieth century, positioning it within a mostly imagined societal crisis about adolescence and modernization. . . . Baxter provides us with a very important interdisciplinary study, one that demands the attention of scholars of children's literature. By arguing that turn-of-the-century juvenile literature, for all its bifurcation between images of ideal and savage youths, was more realistic than generally believed, Modern Age persuades that we should take it seriously." - Children's Literature Association Quarterly, "Building on Joseph Kett's idea (articulated in Rites of Passage , CH, Oct'77) that adolescence is more than a physical stage of life--that it was, indeed, a purposeful social and cultural 'invention'--Baxter (English, California State Univ., Fullerton) brings depth and concreteness to the issue. The author focuses on the late-19th and early-20th centuries to examine the concept of an invented adolescence as it was not only theorized by G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead but also manifested in the juvenile courts, Indian boarding schools, Woodcraft and scouting organizations, and books by Horatio Alger and Edward Stratemeyer (author of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew titles). Baxter argues persuasively that these were instruments for control and rehabilitation of a teenage population deemed dangerous if left to its own devices. He disputes the reality behind the charge and claims that adolescence was created to assuage anxieties about urbanization, industrialization, and other aspects of modernization. The protagonists and texts of this drama will be familiar to historians, but Baxter is a skillful reader and his judicious, revealing interpretations will stimulate those interested in the treatment of adolescence as ideology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." -- CHOICE "This is a rousing and medicinal book, brilliantly conceived and argued with rare sensitivity and an eye toward what we always suspected: that there was something both necessary and deeply wrong about 'the adolescent.' Kent Baxter shows how we created this 'adolescent,' a strange construction made necessary by a confluence of cultural needs and a general turn-of-the-twentieth-century hysteria. We still all live with this energized monster, the teenager, who so often plays out the script handed to him or her: tempestuous, rebellious, a walking Id. Baxter has enormous gifts as a theorist and a writer."--James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English at the University of Southern California, "Building on Joseph Kett's idea (articulated in Rites of Passage , CH, Oct'77) that adolescence is more than a physical stage of life--that it was, indeed, a purposeful social and cultural 'invention'--Baxter (English, California State Univ., Fullerton) brings depth and concreteness to the issue. The author focuses on the late-19th and early-20th centuries to examine the concept of an invented adolescence as it was not only theorized by G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead but also manifested in the juvenile courts, Indian boarding schools, Woodcraft and scouting organizations, and books by Horatio Alger and Edward Stratemeyer (author of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew titles). Baxter argues persuasively that these were instruments for control and rehabilitation of a teenage population deemed dangerous if left to its own devices. He disputes the reality behind the charge and claims that adolescence was created to assuage anxieties about urbanization, industrialization, and other aspects of modernization. The protagonists and texts of this drama will be familiar to historians, but Baxter is a skillful reader and his judicious, revealing interpretations will stimulate those interested in the treatment of adolescence as ideology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." -- CHOICE "This is a rousing and medicinal book, brilliantly conceived and argued with rare sensitivity and an eye toward what we always suspected: that there was something both necessary and deeply wrong about 'the adolescent.' Kent Baxter shows how we created this 'adolescent,' a strange construction made necessary by a confluence of cultural needs and a general turn-of-the-twentieth-century hysteria. We still all live with this energized monster, the teenager, who so often plays out the script handed to him or her: tempestuous, rebellious, a walking Id. Baxter has enormous gifts as a theorist and a writer."--James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English at the University of Southern California
Copyright Date
2008
Topic
Sociology / General, Literary, American / General, Life Stages / Adolescence
Lccn
2008-010013
Dewey Decimal
305.2350973
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Social Science
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