Signs of Masculinity: Men in Literature 1700 to the Present

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Antony Rowland, Emma Liggins, Eriks Uskalis
Rodopi, 1998 - 274 páginas
Masculinity is becoming an increasingly popular area of study in areas as diverse as sociology, politics and cultural studies, yet significant research is lacking into connections between masculinity and literature. Signs of Masculinity aims at beginning to fill the gap. Starting with an introduction to, and intervention within, numerous debates concerning the cultural construction of various masculinities, the volume then continues with an investigation of representations of masculinity in literature from 1700 to the present. Close readings of texts are intended to demonstrate that masculinity is not a theoretical abstract, but a definitive textual and cultural phenomenon that needs to be recognised in the study of literature. It is hoped that the wide-ranging essays, which raise numerous issues, and are written from a variety of methodological approaches, will appeal to undergraduate, postgraduates and lecturers interest in the crucial but under-researched area of masculinity.
 

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Introduction
3
Men in Literature 17001900
31
Strange Longing and Horror in Robinson Crusoe
37
Representations
64
Sarah Ellis Anne Brontë
89
Literary Evolution and Masculinity
117
Edward Carpenter and findesiècle
139
The Abjection of Pornography
162
Sex Drugs and the Economics of Masculinity in William
178
Class and Masculinity in Tony Harrisons Me Tarzan
199
The Fiction of Ian McEwan
218
Performing Masculinities
246
Notes on Contributors
270
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