عنوان

Constructions of masculinity in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present

(Number (ISBN

0230115098

(Number (ISBN

113701587X

(Number (ISBN

9780230115095

(Number (ISBN

9781137015877

Number

b537792

Title Proper

Constructions of masculinity in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Stefan Horlacher.

Edition Statement

1st ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 278 pages ; 22 cm.

Series Title

Global masculinities series.

Text of Note

Charting the field of masculinity studies; or, toward a literary history of masculinities / Stefan Horlacher --;The construction of the construction of masculinities / Harry Brod --;Masculinity inside out : the biopolitical lessons of transgender and intersex studies / Kevin Floyd --;Wrestling in the moonlight : the politics of masculinity in the middle English popular romance Gamelyn / Andrew James Johnston --;"Merit, justice, gratitude, duty, fidelity" : images of masculinity in autobiographies of early modern English gentlewomen and aristocrats / Gabriele Rippl --;The 'crisis' of masculinity in seventeenth-century England / Michael Kimmel --;Augustan manliness and its anxieties : Shaftesbury and Swift / Isabel Karremann --;Fortified masculinity : Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a literary emblem of Western male identity / Laurenz Volkmann --;The invisible center : conceptions of masculinity in Victorian fiction--;realist, crime, detective, and gothic / Ralf Schneider --;The props of masculinity in late Victorian adventure fiction / Susanne Scholz, Nicola Dropmann --;A man could stand up : masculinities and the great war / Silvia Mergenthal --Baffled hopes and bad habits : men, marriage, and conformity in queer theory and gay representation / Berthold Schoene --;Cultural hybridity and fluid masculinities in the postcolonial metropolis : individualized gender identities in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of suburbia and The black album / Meinhard Winkgens --;Who is that man? : lad trouble in High fidelity, The best a man can get, and White city blue / Andrea Ochsner.

Text of Note

An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. This book is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies.

English literature -- History and criticism.

Masculinity in literature.

Men in literature.

edited by Stefan Horlacher.

Stefan Horlacher

Electronic name

[Book]

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