manhood, sex, and violation in American literature /
First Statement of Responsibility
David Greven.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 294 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-286) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Republican Machines -- Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod -- Fear of Fanshawe -- Disturbing the Sleep of Bachelors -- Madman! -- Poe -- Bound in Black Morocco -- Afterlife ... -- The Angel Must Hang -- Coda.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Examining the work of traditional authors-Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Irving, Stowe-Greven discovers highly untraditional and transgressive representations of desire and sexuality. Objects of desire from both women and other men, the inviolate males discussed in this study overturn established gendered and sexual categories, just as this study overturns archetypal assumptions about American manhood and American literature.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Stock Number
302765
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Title
Men beyond desire.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.