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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765766803321

Autore

Slawinski Scott

Titolo

Validating Bachelorhood [[electronic resource] /] / Slawinski, Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.], : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-135-46751-X

0-203-95836-5

1-135-46744-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Collana

Studies in American Popular History and Culture

Altri autori (Persone)

SLAWINSKISCOTT

Disciplina

813/.2

Soggetti

Periodicals - Publishing - United States - History - 19th century

Men - Books and reading - United States - History - 18th century

Masculinity in literature

Patriarchy in literature

Bachelors in literature

Men in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from content provider.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Women Need Not Read On: Magazines in the Early Republic and the Gendered Audience of the Monthly Magazine; Chapter Three Constructions of Masculinity and Brown's Male Reader; Chapter Four Marriage and Bachelorhood: Fiction in the Monthly Magazine; Chapter Five Prospects; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.