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1 online resource (326 pages) |
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DQR Studies in Literature |
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DQR studies in literature.
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| Contents |
Configuring Masculinity inTheory and Literary Practice; Contents; Acknowledgments; Configuring Masculinity; Concepts of Masculinity and Masculinity Studies; Masculinities: The Field of Knowledge; On Reading Men, Law and Gender: Legal Regulationand the New Politics of Masculinity; Masculinity in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur; From Antisocial to Prosocial Manhood:Shakespeare's Rescripting of Masculinity in As You Like It; Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mackenzie'sThe Man of Feeling (1771) |
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"Joseph the Dreamer of Dreams": Jude Fawley's Constructionof Masculinity in Thomas Hardy's Jude the ObscureFrom Angry Young Scholarship Boy to Male Role Model:The Rise of the Working-Class Hero; "Filiarchy" and Masculinity in the Early Novels of Ian McEwan; "What Is a Man?", or the Representation of Masculinityin Hanif Kureishi's Short Fiction; Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters inCaryl Phillips' Fiction; Surrogate Dads: Interrogating Fatherhood in Will Self'sThe Book of Dave; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies with a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Men in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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English literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Men in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9004299009 |
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9789004299009 |
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