Title Boys don't cry? : rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S. / edited by Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) Series NONE NONE Contents What feels an American? Evident selves and alienable emotions in the new man's world / Evan Carton -- Loving with a vengeance: Wieland, familicide and the crisis of masculinity in the early nation / Elizabeth Barnes -- "The manliest relations to men": Thoreau on privacy, intimacy, and writing / Milette Shamir -- Manly tears: men's elegies for children in nineteenth-century America / Eric Haralson -- How to be a (sentimental) race man: mourning and passing in W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk / Ryan Schneider -- The law of the heart: emotional injury and its fictions / Jennifer Travis -- "The sort of thing you should not admit": Hemingway's aesthetics of emotional restraint / Thomas Strychacz -- Road work: rereading Kerouac's midcentury melodrama of beset sonhood / Stephen Davenport -- Men's tears and the roles of melodrama / Tom Lutz -- Men's liberation, men's wounds: emotion, sexuality, and the reconstruction of masculinity in the 1970s / Sally Robinson -- The politics of feeling: men, masculinity, and mourning on the Capital Mall / Judith Newton Summary We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by addressing the history and politics of emotion in prevailing narratives about masculinity. How did the story of the emotionally stifled U.S. male come into being? What are its political stakes? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- History and criticism. Men in literature. Men -- United States -- Attitudes Masculinity in literature. Emotions in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Men -- Psychology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies. American literature Emotions in literature Masculinity in literature Men -- Attitudes Men in literature Men -- Psychology Narration (Rhetoric) English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Shamir, Milette Travis, Jennifer, 1967- ISBN 0231506341 9780231506342

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