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1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages) |
| Contents |
The rhetoric of the office in Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- The business of sexuality in The rise of Silas Lapham -- The businessman and the fairy child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt -- From Babbittry to Gray flannel via tropical incoporation -- Sloan Wilson's Gray flannel man in the queer organization -- Fear, paranoia, and self-pity in Joseph Heller's Something happened -- Shoelaces, social energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The mezzanine and The fermata -- Microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the 1990s |
| Summary |
Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combination of the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-243) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Bartleby, the scrivener.
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Babbitt
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| SUBJECT |
Melville, Herman 1819-1891 Bartleby the scrivener gnd |
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Howells, William Dean 1837-1920 The rise of Silas Lapham gnd |
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Lewis, Sinclair 1885-1951 Babbitt gnd |
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Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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Büro gnd |
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Rise of Silas Lapham (Howells, William Dean) fast |
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Babbitt (Lewis, Sinclair) fast |
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Bartleby, the scrivener (Melville, Herman) fast |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism
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Offices in literature.
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Sex (Psychology) in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Men in literature.
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American fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Men in literature
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Offices in literature
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Sex in literature
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Sex (Psychology) in literature
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Literatur
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Sexualpsychologie
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Littérature américaine.
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Thème littéraire.
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Bureau.
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Identité masculine.
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Sexualité masculine.
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Identité (Psychologie)
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Homme.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1587294400 |
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9781587294402 |
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