1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007362870403321

Titolo

Gedeutete Realität : Krisen, Wirklichkeiten, Interpretationen (3. - 6. Jh. n. Chr.) / Hartwin Brandt (Hg.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : Steiner, 1999

ISBN

3-515-07519-4

Descrizione fisica

151 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Historia , Einzelschriften ; 134

Disciplina

937.0072

Locazione

FGBC

FLFBC

Collocazione

XXI A 710 (134)

937.72 BRA 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960824403321

Autore

Greven David

Titolo

Men Beyond Desire : Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature / / by David Greven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611367893

9781281367891

1281367893

9781403977113

1403977119

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 294 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/353

Soggetti

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Sex

Literature - History and criticism

North American Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Gender Studies

Literary History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Republican Machines -- 1. Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Classic American Literature, and the Sexual Politics of Homosocial Brotherhood -- 2. Fear of Fanshawe: Intransigence, Desire, and Scholarship in Hawthorne's First Published Novel -- 3. Disturbing the Sleep of Bachelors: Natty Bumppo's Brushes with Desire -- 4. "Madman!": Part One: Madness and Manhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance -- 5. "Madman!": Part Two: Madness and Manhood in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- 6.



"Bound in Black Morocco": Manhood and Enchantment in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 7. The Afterlife of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 8. The Angel Must Hang: Billy Budd, Sailor, Compulsory Homosociality, and the Handsome Sailor -- 9. Coda: Billy's Fist -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Examining the work of traditional authors - Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Irving, Stowe - Greven discovers highly untraditional and transgressive representations of desire and sexuality. Objects of desire from both women and other men, the inviolate males discussed in this study overturn established gendered and sexual categories, just as this study overturns archetypal assumptions about American manhood and American literature.