About man-making : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Kurtz's curse : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness -- Grasping the boy : Henry James's The Turn of the screw -- Boys armed with sticks : William Golding's Lord of the flies -- The height of fashion : Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork orange -- A pretty bad case of virginity : John Osborne's Look back in anger -- The successful zombie : John Braine's Room at the top -- Dams burst : Iain Banks's The Wasp factory -- The exquisite negative of his sex : Angela Carter's The Passion of new Eve -- This stiff state does not suit man : Alasdair Gray's 1982 Janine -- The dark continent of masculinity : Irvine Welsh's Marabou stork nightmares -- The u-turn of the father : Ian McEwan's The Child in time -- Of ceremonies : Neil Bartlett's Ready to catch him should he fall
Summary
Comprising 14 individual case studies of work such as Heart of Darkness and Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares, this text gives a critical outline of the historical development of literary representations of masculinity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index
Notes
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