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dc.contributor.advisorSteele, Karen
dc.contributor.authorJones, Avery Erratten_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-22T18:48:38Z
dc.date.available2014-07-22T18:48:38Z
dc.date.created2012en_US
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.identifierUMI thesisen_US
dc.identifieretd-12062012-103646en_US
dc.identifierumi-10354en_US
dc.identifiercat-001917430en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/4404
dc.description.abstractMy thesis shows how J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy uses nineteenth-century gender norms discussed in children's periodicals but undercuts these norms through the interjections of his conflicted narrator. My first chapter demonstrates how two widely known nineteenth-century boys' magazines, the Boys of England and the Boy's Own Paper, portray manly boyhood through the lens of the feminine. These periodicals present conflicting views of boyhood, but both suggest that boys need girls. In the second chapter, I argue that J. M. Barrie expresses these norms, absorbed during his own youth, in his novel, Peter and Wendy. This novel also suggests that boys need girls, employing the ideals of boyhood and girlhood expressed in the nineteenth-century boys' periodicals. The narrator's frequent and disruptive comments, however, undermine these gender norms, drawing attention to the fractures in late Victorian models of ideal boyhood and girlhooden_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Onlineen_US
dc.publisher[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,en_US
dc.relation.ispartofTCU Master Thesisen_US
dc.relation.requiresMode of access: World Wide Web.en_US
dc.relation.requiresSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.en_US
dc.titleBoys need girls: gender norms from nineteenth-century boys' periodicals to Peter and Wendyen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDept. of English
etd.degree.levelMaster
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentEnglish
dc.type.genreThesis
local.subjectareaEnglish
etd.degree.nameMaster of Arts


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