| Description |
xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland -- Touching Byron: masculinity and the celebrity body in the romantic period / Diego Saglia -- Turning into subjects: the male dancer in romantic ballet / Gerald Siegmund -- Industrial heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë's constructions of the masculine / Jessica L. Malay -- Low on assurance: the troubled masculinity of Victorian comedy / Rainer Emig -- Performing imperial masculinities: the discourse and practice of cricket / Anthony Bateman -- "A Stoat Came to Tea": camp poetics and masculinity / Antony Rowland -- Lethal enclosure: masculinity under fire in James Jones's The thin red line / David Boulting -- In their fathers' footsteps: performing masculinity and fatherhood in the work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje / Katharine Burkitt -- Seeding Asian masculinities in the U.S. landscape: representations of men's lives in Asian American literature / Wendy Ho -- From flam rock to cock rock: revis(it)ing rock masculinities in recent feature films / Lucia Krämer -- Histories of violence : fairytales of identity and masculinity in Martin McDonagh's The lieutenant of Inishmore and The pillowman / Wolfgang Funk -- "Ghosts of Sparta": performing the God of War's virtual masculinity / Sven Schmalful |
| Summary |
Were there male celebrity bodies before David Beckham? When did male dancers start playing a part---and which one? Was Victorian masculinity all in earnest before Oscar Wilde? What kind of masculinity does cricket promote? What is ̀Cock Rock'? How can we understand Japanese-American masculinities? Do contemporary computer games have a gender? These and other questions are addressed in this book through contemporary theories of masculinity and performativity. The answers that experts from many different fields of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies provide add up to a survey of modern masculinity, its precursors, its manifestations across different genres and different media, as well as its continuing challenges and impasses --Book Jacket |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in popular culture.
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Masculinity.
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| Author |
Emig, Rainer, 1964-
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Rowland, Antony.
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| LC no. |
2009048424 |
| ISBN |
0230577989 (alk. paper) |
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9780230577985 (alk. paper) |
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