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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453919803321

Autore

Dudley John <1965->

Titolo

A man's game [[electronic resource] ] : masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / / John Dudley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8173-8182-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Disciplina

813/.50912

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Naturalism in literature

American fiction - Male authors - History and criticism

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

African American men - Intellectual life

African American men in literature

Masculinity in literature

Aesthetics, American

Men in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Tulane University, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility -- "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood -- "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton -- "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.

Sommario/riassunto

Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism. A Man's Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement's key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Charles Chestnutt, and James Weldon Johnson. John Dudley argues that in the climate of the late 19th century, when these



authors were penning their major works, literary endeavors were widely viewed as frivolous, the work of ladies for ladies, who comprise